The names of the cities in Turkey come from?

The names of the cities in Turkey come from?

Almost everyone is always curious about the stories about the cities you live in. These stories, which are generally interesting, also contain clues about where the names of cities come from.
 Well, do you know where the name of the city you live in comes from?
 Here are the meanings of cities and their names ...

ADANA
There is no exact information about who and how founded Adana. However, according to a legend conveyed by the Byzantine Etien, Uranus' sons Adanos and Saros fought Tarsus and captured this place. According to Sabah's report, Adanos named the city (Adana) and Saros the river (Seyhan).
ADIYAMAN
Adıyaman was originally established in the place of Piran Village and was named Perre. Later, the Umayyads built a castle here. The city started to be known as "Hısn Mansur", which means Mansur's Castle. When the city was conquered in the time of Selim I, the Turks started to call it Adıyaman.

AFYONKARAHİSAR
The word "Hisar" is frequently mentioned in Afyon folk songs. "Turn the bodies of the fortress those who go." It is not without reason that the word fortress is often repeated in Afyon folk songs. The Seljuks captured the city, formerly known as Akroenos, after a long siege. "Fortress" means siege. They called the place obtained with pain "Karahisar" and built a castle of black stones there. When opium started to be cultivated in the region in the sixteenth century, Afyon was added to the head of Karahisar and the city became "Afyonkarahisar".

AĞRI
It takes its name from the "Ararat" Mountain within its borders. In ancient times, the earth was subjected to a terrible flood (Noah's Flood). Prophet Noah took a couple from all living things and put them on a ship. According to Islamic sources, the ship was put on Judi, and according to Christian sources, on Mount Ararat. Ararat was named after Aran and then Ağrı.

AKSARAY
Seljuk Sultan İzzettin Kılıçarslan built a large and white palace with mosques, madrasahs, domes in the city. The city got its name "Aksaray" from this white palace.

AMASYA
Geographer Strabon uses the word Amaseia for Amasya. It is associated with the phrase 'Ama' which means 'mother' and its variation 'Mâ'. From this it can be said that Amaseia means "the city of Mother Goddess Ma". Mother Goddess Mâ is an oriental goddess whose worship became widespread after the Persians conquered Anatolia. The word Amaseia, on the other hand, is the original form of the word in the Persian period, adapted to the Hellenic dialect.

ANKARA
In Islamic sources, Ankara's name is called Enguru. According to some, the word Ankara is derived from Engür, which means "Grape" in Persian, or "Aguirada", which means Koruk in Greek. It is suggested to some that it derives from Ank, which means "to bend" in Indo-European languages, or 'ankaba', which means 'to bend' in Sankskrit, or 'uncus', which means 'hook' in Latin. In the Phrygian language, Ank means "rough, mixed land." Other names of the city; Ankyra, Ankura, Ankuria, Angur, Engel, Engürüy, Angare, Angera, Ancora, Ancora and finally Ankara has taken shape.

ARDAHAN
Ardahan's name father is Georgians. The name Ardahan comes from the Georgian Ardana.

ANTALYA
It was founded in the 11th century BC by the king of Pergamum Attalos ll. The city was named after its founder and was called Attaleia. Later this name changed to Adalia, Antalia and finally Antalya.

ARTVİN
It was founded by the Scythians. The word Artvin is Scythian.

AYDIN
It was first established by the Argos. He took it from Aydınoğlu Mehmet Bey, one of the Anatolian lords. Aydın is the name of Mehmet Bey's father.

BALIKESİR
It is believed that the name of the city derives from Paleokastio, which means old fortress. According to a rumor circulating among the people, honey means a lot. Because Fraction means a lot in Arabic.

BARTIN
The source of the name that has changed from "PARTHENIA" to Bartın is "PARTHENIOS". Parthenios, the name of Bartın River in ancient times, is one of the children of OKENAUS and "God of Water" in Greek mythology. It means "waters divine or magnificent flowing water". Another meaning is "Choir songs for young virgins or young girls" ... "Young virgin" is an attribute of the goddess Athena.

BATMAN
The name Batman has been used since the Middle Ages and has emerged as a name that integrates with Batman Stream.

BAYBURT
According to available sources, the medieval name of the town was "Paypert" or "Pepert". Bayburt name comes from here.

BİLECİK
During the Byzantine period, there was a castle called Bilekoma here. When Osman Bey bought this place, he gave this name as Bilecik.

BİNGÖL
This name was given because of the many lakes here.

BİTLİS
According to some historians, it derives from the words "Bagesh" or "Pagish". According to some, "Lis" or "Badlis", the commander of Alexander the Great, built a castle here. The word of Bitlis comes from the name of this commander.

BOLU
Previously, Bithynion was called Claudiopolis during the Romans. When the Turks occupied this place, they shortened the word Claudiopolis and said only police. Later, it changed the language of the folk and became Bolu.

BURDUR
Its old name is Askaniya. It takes its name from the Burdur lake where it was founded.

BURSA
It is the capital of the ancient Bithynia region. It was named after its founder, the king of Bithynia, Prusias. (11th century BC)

CANAKKALE
It is the largest of the cities and towns on the Bosphorus, which connects the Marmara and Aegean seas, and is the provincial center. It was established on the eastern shore of the Bosphorus and the narrowest part. The shape of the sea here resembles a bowl. It takes its current name from here.

ÇANKIRI
It was founded at the foot of the "Gangra" castle in antiquity. Çankırı, which takes its name from the Gangra castle, was called Çangırı and Çenğiri until recently.

CORUM
According to the rumor, it is derived from the word Çoğurum. This is due to the fact that the Greeks constituted the majority in the region.

DENİZLİ
It is formed from the combination of the words Deniz-ili. Province means country, country in old Turkish. So it is called the sea country. According to another rumor, the original of the word is pig-ili. This is due to the abundance of pigs in the region.

DIYARBAKIR
It means the country of copper. The source of this name is Diyar-ı Bekir. It means Bekir's hometown. The reason for this is Bekir b. It is due to the fact that the Arab nomad tribe named Va'il settled here. Diyarbakır's old name is Amid or Amed. Means incoming or ours. In the book of Dede Korkut, Amid was also called Hamid.

DÜZCE
There is no record of where his name comes from.

EDIRNE
The city is named "Hadrianopolis" because it was founded by the emperor Hadrian during the Roman period. This word, which means the city of Hadrian, went through changes and became Edirne.

ELAZIĞ
It was founded in 1834 in a place called Mezra. In 1862, it was named "Mamuretülaziz" in honor of the then sultan Abdulaziz. The people who found this name long shortened it as Elaziz. It was converted to Elazig in 1937.

ERZİNCAN
It takes its name from the Erzincan plain. It is sung by the people as Ezirgan. The old name of this place is Eriza.

ERZURUM
Ardı comes from the word Rum. That means Greek land. According to another rumor, Seljuks called this place Erzen-Rum. Erzen means millet. The city that once was used as a granary.

ESKİŞEHİR
Its old name is Doylaion. In 1080, the Turks captured this place. In 1175, Byzantium took it back. When Kılıçarslan took back this city later, he named it Old City, which means "Our old city".

GAZİANTEP
The old name of the city is Ayıntab. The meaning of the word means the eye of the spring. The people changed it to Antep. When he fought a successful war against the French in the People's Liberation War, he was granted the title of Gazi with a law enacted on February 6, 1921.

GİRESUN
It is controversial where the city was founded and by whom it was inhabited. This hesitation BC. It is also included in the sources of 350 years. The geographer Strabon calls the city Farnakia; He emphasized that it was established where the city of Giresun is today. Roman ruler Arrien stated that Farnakia was formerly known as Kerasus and wrote that this place was founded by the people of Sinop.

GUMUSHANE
Since there used to be silver mines here, this city was called Gümüşhane.

HAKKARI
The word Hakkari has passed into our language from Kurdish. According to the rumor, the essence of the word is "Kar-in" and has the prefix "Her". In Kurdish, "Kar-in" means "can" and describes the state of man's ability. Therefore, the word "Hakkari" has the meaning of "always powerful, always able".

HATAY
Europeans used to call northern China "Hitay" ("Kitay" in Russian). Semi-nomadic Turkish tribes called "Hitai" invaded Manchuria and northern China in the 10th century and the name of this place remained "Hitai". Atatürk believed that the "Hitai" had also come to Anatolia. That's why he named Antakya, which he regarded as "40 centuries-old Turkish homeland", as Hatay.

IĞDIR
Iğdır's name is; It comes from "Igdir Beg", the eldest son of Cengiz Alp, one of the six sons of the Ic-Oghuzs-Three-Ok branch, which is considered the 21st of the 24 Oghuz tribes. The first headdress of this neck is Iğdır Beg. The meaning of Iğdır as a word means "good, great, brave president, famous and owner", and according to Yazıcıoğlu and Resid-Üd-Din it means "good, great, baha."

ISPARTA
After Alexander the Great became King (356 - 323 BC), western Anatolia came under Greek rule. Even after Alexander died, this area remained dependent on Athens for 36 years. During these years, the Greeks of Athens and the Isparta living in the Peloponnese began to migrate to the west of Anatolia. A large community came from Isparta on the Mora Peninsula; He settled in Isparta City. They named the city as ISPARTA of their country.

ISTANBUL
B.C. Since it was founded in 658 by the king of Megara, Byzas, this city was named Byzantion because of its founder. During the Roman emperor Marcus Avrelius period, it was called "Antion" after the emperor's spiritual father. When the Byzantine Emperor Constantine re-established this city, he gave it his own name. The city was named "Constantine or Constantine". The Arabs said "Constantinople, the Romans Constantinople". Later, the term "Stin-polis", the abbreviated form of this name, was used. Here Istanbul is derived from this city of "Stin-Polis". When the Turks took this place, they named it "Islambol", meaning a Muslim city. But later it was changed to Istanbul.

IZMIR
The real name of the city is "Smyrna". The word Izmir is the usage of Smyrna among the people. In the Homeric epics, this city takes its name from Smyra, the daughter of the King of Cyprus Kinyras, and the goddess Artemis is from Izmir. According to some sources, it was the Amazons, not the Hittites, who founded the city of Izmir first. (The Hittites also named it Navlühun.

KAHRAMANMARAŞ
His real name is Markasi. It changed to Maraş in the folk language. Since they heroically defended their city against the French in the War of Independence, the assembly was awarded the title of hero on February 11, 1922.

KARABUK
Karabük is a Republic city. Karabük, which is a 13-house neighborhood of Afranbolu, a village of Safranbolu district, was named after the opening of the Ankara-Zonguldak railway in 1935, when it was necessary to give a name to the place where the current station is, Karabük District Station with 13 houses.

KARAMAN
His first name is Laranda. Its name in the Seljuks and Ottomans was Larende. Since it was the capital of Karamanids, it was named Karaman later.

KARS
The city was named Kars because of the Karsak tribe that settled here in 130-127 BC. The meaning of the word Kars means dress or shawl belt made of camel or sheep wool.

KASTAMONU
The old name of the city is "Tumana". A tribe named Gas-Gas settled here later. Here Kastamonu came from the union of Gas and Tuman.

KAYSERİ
When the Romans took the city called Mazaka, they named it Kaysarea. So it means Emperor City. Later, it spread among the public as Kayseri.

KIRIKKALE
It is said to have emerged from the combination of Kırıkköyü and Kaletepe, which is located in the center of the city, by shortening it. Although it is widely believed that this name is attributed to the public, the name of the region is referred to as "Kırıkkal" in the Ottoman archive documents. The Byzantine castle commander, who heard that the attackers attacked, orders all the barrels full of gunpowder to be blown up when they are defeated. happens. The name of the city expresses the heroism and identity of the martyrs.

KIRKLARELİ
The name Kırklareli comes from 40 warriors who added the lands to our body.These warriors, whose other names are known as crazy or raiders, captured the castle, but they lost their lives in these lands with the mass suicide of the Byzantines who knew in advance that they could not escape from here.

KIRŞEHİR
It is a combination of the words 'Rural' and 'City'.

KİLİS
It is seen that the name of Kilis bears the same name as a city called Pellada Cyrrhus in Upper Mesopotamia and is mentioned as Kilis Castle in Ottoman sources. In Grant Dictionier he writes Cyrrhus as "Master" which means "Kiris". It was probably called Kiris, Kilis by the Turkmens who came to the region in the 8th century, and its present place was named Kilis.

KOCAELİ
It was called Kocaeli because of the commander named Akçakoca, who conquered this region during the Orhan Gazi period.

KONYA
Christian saints St.Petersburg in 47-50 and 53 years before Christ. Paul visited and the city developed into an important religious center. This is why the Christians called it "Iconium", which means "depiction of Christ". When the Abbasids took this place, they turned it into "Kuniye". The Turks changed this name to Konya.

KÜTAHYA
The Phrygians called it "Katyatium or Katiation". Later, local people called it Kütahya.

MALATYA
During the Hittite period, the name of this place is "Meliddu". It has been changed as Malatya by the people.

MANİSA
It came from Magnesya in Greek. When the Turks took this place, they changed the name of the city as Manisa.

MARDIN
It is rumored that the name Mardin comes from Marde in Syriac. Romans called it "Maride" and the Arabs called it "Mardin". According to another rumor, it is said that it comes from the Kurdish word Mer-din, that is, man, brave-see.

MERSİN
The reason why Mersin is called Mersin is that there used to be a tribe called MERSİNLİ, near the current city of Mersin. This tribe was from Turkestan. There are seven or eight more villages in Anatolia under the name of MERSIN, the name of MERSIN was given according to the name of this Turkish tribe named Mersin.

MUĞLA
Its old name is "Mobolla". The Turks later called it Muğla.

MUŞ
According to a rumor, from Muşa, which means plenty of water in Syriac, according to another rumor, the founder of the city came from "Muşet".

NEVSEHIR
The city was a village until the eighteenth century and its name was "Muşkara". Later, he developed the village of Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Paşa and named it Nevşehir, meaning the new city.

NIGDE
Since a tribe called Nagdosians lived in the region in antiquity, they gave their names to this city. Arab sources called the city "Nekide or Nikde". The people named the city Niğde.

ORDU
Its old name is "Kotyora". This name has been changed by the people.

OSMANİYE
Osmaniye's name comes from a different source in Arabic, Otman.

RIZE
It is thought to be a word of Caucasian origin.

SAKARYA
It takes its name from the Sakarya River passing through its borders.

SAMSUN
Its old name is "Amisos". The name Samsun is the change of this word among the people.

SİİRT
It is said that the name Siirt comes from Keldani origin and means city. According to another rumor, it is the corrupted form of the word Sert.

SINOP
The name Sinop comes from a Greek goddess named Sinope. The previous name of the city is Sinope.

SİVAS
There are different opinions about the source of the name Sivas used today. Among these, 'Sebaste' Sebasteiae was named in ancient Greek (City of Augustus) by Pitodoris, the wife of the Pontus king Polemon. When the Romans took the Pont Kingdom under their rule, they left the rule of the city to the Kingdom of Pont. The lady of the Pont King is thought to have given the name "Sebaste", which means the city of Ogust in Greek, to win the love of the Roman King Augustus and to express his gratitude and loyalty to him. It is claimed that Sebaste transformed into "Sivas" in time. Another view is that the name used as "Sivas" today comes from "Sipas". In the period when the city was first established, there are three water cells (Sources) under the big plane trees in the place where today's city center is located. One of these cells represents "Thank God", the second "respect for mother and father" and the third "love for the little ones". When the people living in this region lose their characteristics over time, they dry up in all three eyes. It is claimed that the name of the city originated from "Sipas" meaning "to three eyes" and in time it transformed into "Sivas" that we use today.

ŞANLIURFA
Its old name is "Orhoe or Orhai". Dah was later converted to "R" by the Arabs. According to another rumor, it comes from Kurdish and means R which means sun. The city was founded by the Babylonian ruler Ramis-Nemrut.

ŞIRNAK
Şırnak was founded under the name of Şehr-i Nuh at the north of Mount Judi, which is claimed to be the remains of Noah's Ark, and was named Şerneh first and then Şırnak in later years.

TEKİRDAĞ
It takes its name from Tekirdağları, which stretches along the coast.

TOKAT
Its old name was "Komana Pontika". It is the changed form of the name of Tokat among the people of Pontika.

TRABZON
It comes from the word "Trapezus". It means four corners.

TUNCELİ
The city was named Tunceli due to the presence of some mineral deposits here. So it means Bronze Country.

UŞAK
It is the name of a child or young person in a folk language. According to some rumors, it is said that the word servant comes from the word âşık.

VAN
The Assyrian queen Semiramis founded Van. Therefore, the city was named "Şahmirankent". Later, during the Persian period, a governor named Van came here and the city was named after him because he made the city prosperous.

YALOVA
Although various claims have been made about where Yalova's name came from, the most accepted is that it comes from the name "Yalakabad", which was given to the region that started from Çiftlikköy and included the districts of Termal and Çınarcık during the Ottoman period. After Yalakabad, it was documented that this place was called Yali Plain and that the Great Leader Atatürk, who came to Yalova frequently from the proclamation of the Republic until his death, wrote and signed the Yali Plain after making history. The name of the "Katırlı" town in Yalova is Esenköy, and the neighborhood of Teşvikiye, which was known as "Zindan" for years since there was a prison in the past, was changed to Yukarı Teşvikiye.

YOZGAT
There are different rumors about the origin of the name Yozgat. Yozgat means a herd or a pasture city. Bozok Plateau has had an important place in the development of animal husbandry since ancient times. Yozkent means a city with abundant herds. It is claimed that this name was later changed to Yozgat.

ZONGULDAK
Since the city center is located at the mouth of the Üzülmez Stream and the creek was called "Sandra" in the first age and the settlement established here was called "Sandaraca", it is claimed that this name has turned into Zonguldak in time.