YUNAK
There are two rumors about the name Yunak.
In ancient times, the people of Turgutlu Town used to wash sheep, lamb and wool in the stream and it is thought that the name Yunak comes from washing wool.
2- Since the wool washed in Karataş Stream is white, it easily finds buyers in Akşehir and Konya and the expression white wool is used. It is thought that the name Yunak derives from the saying "white wool".
Yunak has been a frequent destination for many civilizations. The King's Road (Golden Road) of the Lydian state passes through Yunak. It is understood from the finds that Yunak and its surroundings are covered with forests and viticulture is widely practiced.
Yunak, which was attached to the town of Çeltik until 1912, later became a part of Hatırlı. After the district center was taken to Cihanbeyli, Yunak, which was connected to Akşehir, gained the status of a parish and reached the status of a district in 1953.
Caves and shelters and city wall ruins in the town center, Miskamit city ruins in Turgut Town, castle ruins in Harunlar village, castle and city ruins in Hursunlu village Taşkınlar plateau, Pissiya city ruins in Samıt and Kapaklı district of Piribeyli Town, masonry and sarcophagus ruins in Malçiskan of the same place, Again, the church and city ruins in Karagöz Ağılı are known as historical and touristic places of this place.
Located in the middle parts of Anatolia, Yunak surroundings have been frequented by many tribes in various periods of history. There are Roman and even Hittite ruins near the district. Cubes used for various purposes were found during the excavations in the surrounding area, and it is rumored that plenty of vineyard roots were found in the first settlement years. These suggest that the area around the district was a vineyard orchard in ancient times.
After the Oghuz Turks spread like a fan from the east to the west of Anatolia in the 11th century, the Byzantine domination in this region ended. Konya and its environs became a place of concentration for the westward advance of the Oghuz Turks. We know that the Turkish tribes who came to Anatolia to make their homeland settled around our district and today they established some villages connected to Yunak. It is known that Torunlar village was founded by people belonging to Afşar tribe, and Hursunlu Kuzören, Kıllar, Turgut, Yığar villages are Turkmen villages. It is understood that Turgut Town has a much older history than Yunak. The history of Yunak district center is considered new. Settlement in the center and some nearby villages took place after the 16th century. During the time of the Safavids, a village called Ruzegi, which came from Khorasan and settled first in Karabakh and then on the skirts of the Bitlis Mountains, spread to the provinces of Kars, Erzurum, Erzincan, Elazig, Harput, Malatya, Maraş and Çorum during the Seljuk and Ottoman periods. Twelve of the 25 tribes settled in the Yunak region at the end of the migrations, twelve of them moved to Bilbaşı, and twelve of them moved to Govastı and established the villages of Hatırlı, Koçyazı, Meşelik, Sülüklü and Saray, respectively. is known to have been established. After the settlements started in Yunak, there were migrations from the surrounding villages and later from Emirdağ. Yoruks, on the other hand, came from Antep, İslahiye, Antalya and Beyşehir regions around 1870, abandoned nomadism and settled down. In 1949, there were settlements especially in Gökpınar from the aforementioned places. Kargalı, Sıram, Ayrtepe, Cebrail and Sevinç villages were founded by Sarıkeçili Yoruks. Apart from these, there are immigrants from Bulgaria who were settled in the region. immigrants; The center is located in Doğanyurt (Çeltik) and part of Hacıfakılı Village. Doğanyurt was founded in 1908 by Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria under the name of Meşrutiye. It is said that these immigrants went to Bulgaria from Karaman region during the Ottoman period.
After Yunak was founded, its connection as a village continued with the town of Sivrihisar for a while. Later, Yunak, which was attached to the town of Çeltik until 1912, was transferred to Hatırlı village of the district center on the grounds that Çeltik's swamp and mosquitoes were found. Since the village of Hatırlı was moved to Cihanbeyli, the township of Yunak was made a sub-district center of Akşehir district. In 1953, it was turned into a district of Konya province.
The county, whose economy was completely dependent on agriculture and animal husbandry after the republican period, has not lost much of this feature today. Today, the center of the settlement is the place surrounding the Government Street, which the people call the bazaar, where official buildings, shops, shops and some other workplaces are located. Yunak, nowadays; It consists of six neighborhoods known as Karataş, Yeni, Esentepe, Selçuk, Fatih and Esme. of the county