Bozkır is a town and district

Districts of Turkey

The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 957 districts . In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the kaza....

 of Konya Province

Konya Province

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 in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey

Turkey

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. According to 2008 census, population of the district is 31,601 of which 7,212 live in the town of Bozkır.

The town occupied a central position in ancient Isauria

Isauria

Isauria , in ancient geography, is a rugged isolated district in the interior of South Asia Minor, of very different extent at different periods, but generally covering what is now the district of Bozkır and its surroundings in the Konya province of Turkey, or the core of the Taurus Mountains. In...

. The name Bozkır means steppe

Steppe

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 in Turkish language

Turkish language

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 and after the Turkish

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 settlement in early Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate period, Bozkır was initially the name given to the region extending between the present-day Bozkır town marked by Çarşamba Stream and the lands around neighboring Seydişehir

Seydisehir

Seydişehir is a town and district of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 85,456 of which 48,372 live in the town of Seydişehir.-External links:*...

. The name Bozkır was eventually adopted for the town.