Akşehir
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Akşehir is a municipality and district of Konya Province, Turkey. Its area is 895 km2, and its population is 93,965. It was known historically as Philomelium.
Akşehir Ethnography Museum
Akşehir Grand Mosque Fountain
Aksehir station
Akşehir railway station
Battle of Philomelion (1116)
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The Battle of Philomelion of 1116 consisted of a series of clashes over a number of days between a Byzantine expeditionary army under Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and the forces of the Sultanate of Rûm
Akşehir
…I Komnenos here, persuading him to not continue his march to Antioch. Alexios returned in one of his final campaigns in 1116 to Philomelion which he conquered and returned with many Greek refugees to Byzantine lands. In 1146, the town was taken by emperor Manuel I Komnenos after defeating forces of the Sultanate…
Emperor Alexios I