AKSEHIR
Being on the trade routes, Akşehir has hosted many civilizations, interacted with many civilizations, was also plundered and destroyed during raids and invasions.

It is understood from the surveys carried out in the region that the first settlement in Akşehir started in the Neolithic Age. The following Chalcolithic, Old Bronze, Hittite, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman periods can be listed.

Hittite Kings II. Murşili's occupation in Western Anatolia extended to Nef around İzmir. In his time, strong military garrisons were established in this region. In this period, the region came under Hittite rule. Cube and spouted jugs obtained from the mounds around Akşehir date back to the 4th century BC. XVI. It proves the Hittite settlement dating back to the century. The Hittites, who lost their power under the influence of the sea peoples (Aegean) migrations from the west, were replaced by the Phrygians.

Strabo, the area where the city is located is called "Phrygia Paroreia". This region has a mountain range running from east to west, and a wide plain stretches on both sides at its foothills. Cities located near the plain; To the north, there are the cities called Philomelion (Akşehir) and on the other side, Antiokheia (Yalvaç) near Pisidia. Philomelion means "all plain". As Akşehir is located on the erosion layer coming from the Sultan Mountains, it looks like a mountain foot. Like the Phrygians, the Lydians also entered Asia Minor through the Dardanelles and dominated this region up to the Kızılırmak. In this invasion, they also capture and plunder Philomelion. When the Lydian King Kraisos was defeated by the Persian Sovereign Daryus, the lands of Lydia and Phrygia entered the Persian Sovereignty. Thus, Akşehir, BC. In 547/546, it came under the domination of the Persians. In the Hellenistic Age, although the people of Galat settled and the region was called Galatia, it has become a habit to use the name Phrygia as a historical habit.

The spring (Midas' Fountain) named after the Phrygian King Midas is in today's Ulupınar village. After that period, Mele Village near the city, which was one of the city bishops of Lydia, still bears the name of the Princess' husband Melas today. After the Persian and Hellenistic period domination in Akşehir, Roman and Byzantine invasions followed in turn. It is connected to Ikonion (Konya) within the Anatolian administrative organization during the Roman period.

Akşehir, the end city of Byzantium, constantly changes hands between the sides during the wars of the Umayyads and then the Abbasids with Byzantium. In 1071, after he was victorious in the war with the Ruler of the Great Seljuk Empire, Romanian Diogenes, a Turkization movement began in Anatolia. After this movement, a wind of change begins to blow in Anatolia and, accordingly, in Akşehir. Kutalmışoğlu Süleyman Bey, the founder of the Anatolian Seljuk State, took Akşehir in 1076-77 and thus Akşehir came under the rule of the Oghuz Turks. During the reign of Suleyman Shah, Turkish culture found its cradle in Konya and Akşehir and its environs. Later, this culture grows and develops, making Konya the Center of Turkish Culture. Upon the death of Süleyman Shah in 1086, I. Kılınçarslan was brought to the head of the Anatolian Seljuk State. As a result of the wars he waged with the Crusaders, Kilincarslan I lost Iznik, its capital, in 1097, and made Konya the capital again in the same year. Since the Crusader raids from the Straits were made to Akşehir before Konya, the first Akşehir was destroyed and plundered. With the collapse of the Seljuk State, Akşehir was ruled first by Eşrefoğulları and then by Hamitoğulları for 100 years. The city was sold to Murat Hüdavendigar in 1381. When Yıldırım Beyazıt was defeated by Timur in 1402, he was imprisoned in the funeral section of Ferruhşah Masjid and committed suicide there. Akşehir, which was captured by the Karamanoğulları for a short time during the Interregnum, was conquered in 1467 during the reign of Fatih Sultan Mehmet, and the uninterrupted Ottoman Domination began, which would last until the Republic.

During the Ottoman Empire Period, the looting and invasion that Akşehir had seen for centuries comes to an end. Due to the fact that the city was at the crossroads of trade and roads for many years, it became advantageous for the first time in this period. Yavuz Sultan Selim stayed in Akşehir during an expedition against the Safavid ruler Shah Ismail. IV. It is understood from the excavation on the column bracelet found in the last congregation place of the Imaret Mosque, which is the only Ottoman work of the Famous Traveler Evliya Çelebi, that Murad visited Akşehir when he set out on the Baghdad Expedition. During the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the Egyptian Army under the command of Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Pasha advanced to Konya via Akşehir and a part of the army spent the winter in Akşehir. These events are an indication that Akşehir was an important trade center on the trade routes during the Ottoman Period.

The Western Front Headquarters was transferred to Akşehir on 21 November 1921. The preparations for the offensive in a period of 9 months and 10 days, which will last until August 24, 1922, Akşehir