Kırşehir

Kırşehir

Understand The city goes back to Hittite times and took its present name when the Seljuks occupied it in 1070: kır şehir means city of the steppes, for its high-altitude setting. It's on the North Anatolia fault line and is often roiled by earth tremors, so few antiquities have survived and its architecture is non-descript modern. It has over the centuries produced an unusual number of poets, preachers and scholars, and nowadays hosts Ahi Evran University named for one of them. Local industries are furniture, agriculture such as flour, pulses and animal feeds, light engineering, electronics and tyres. The area's natural geothermal power has been under-utilised but is starting to heat greenhouses against the bitter winters.

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