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EÃÅ¸irdir DÃÂ¼nbar Bey Medresesi and HÃÂ±zÃÂ±r Bey Camii Royalty Free Stock Photo

EÃÅ¸irdir DÃÂ¼nbar Bey Medresesi and HÃÂ±zÃÂ±r Bey Camii

He town was founded by the Hittites before falling to the Phrygians in around 1200 BC, and subsequently being conquered by the Lydians, the Persians and the forces of Alexander the Great. The Romans called the town Prostanna. During the Byzantine era, when it acquired its name of Akrotiri `peninsula`, it was the seat of a bishopric. The Seljuks conquered it around 1080 and held it until the HamidoÃÅ¸ullarÃÂ± tribe made it the capital of a small principality in 1280, which lasted until 1381.[3] The 14th century traveller Ibn Battuta described it as `a great and populous city with fine bazaars and running streams, fruit trees and orchards`, which was situated beside `a lake of sweet water`.[4] The Ottomans took control in 1417. Most of its population consisted of Greek Orthodox people until the population exchanges of the 1920