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Afyonkarahisar Province
Afyonkarahisar

Afyonkarahisar

Afyonkarahisar or Afyon is a city in 250 km southwest of Ankara, with a population in 2020 of 245,405. Its fortress or citadel perches on a black volcanic crag, an obvious defensive position.
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  • Type: City with 748,000 residents
  • Description: city in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Afioun-Kara-Hissar”, “Afium Kara Hissar”, “Afium Karahisar”, “Afiun Karahissar”, “Afiun Qarahisar”, “Afiun-Carahissar”, “Afıon Karahissar”, “Afyon”, “Afyoncarahisar”, “Kara Hissar Sahib”, and “Karahısarısahıp”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Afyonkarahisar Castle and Grand Mosque of Afyonkarahisar.

Castle
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The Castle of Afyonkarahisar is a historical fortification, which was built around 1350 BC and is located in Afyonkarahisar, . While refers specifically to the defensive fortification, Afyonkarahisar refers to the town containing the structure, and was renamed from Afyon to Afyonkarahisar in 2004.

Mosque
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The Afyon Grand Mosque is a historical mosque in Afyonkarahisar in province, .

Museum
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The is a national in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, which was used as headquarters by then Commander-in-Chief Mustafa Kemal Pasha, his chief general staff and army commanders before the Great Offensive in August 1922.

Afyonkarahisar

Latitude
38.7569° or 38° 45′ 25″ north
Longitude
30.5387° or 30° 32′ 19″ east
Population
748,000
Elevation
1,019 metres (3,343 feet)
IATA airport code
AFY
United Nations Location Code
TR AFY
Open location code
8GCGQG4Q+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25869720
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
325303
Wiki­data ID
Q166824
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Afyonkarahisar” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Afjonkarahisar”
  • Arabic: “أفيون قره حصار”
  • Armenian: “Աֆիոն-Կարահիսար”
  • Armenian: “Աֆյոնքարահիսար”
  • Asturian: “Afyonkarahisar (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Afyonqarahisar”
  • Basque: “Afyon”
  • Basque: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Belarusian: “Аф’ён-Карахісар”
  • Belarusian: “Аф’ён”
  • Belarusian: “Аф’ёнкарахісар”
  • Belarusian: “Афён”
  • Bengali: “আফিয়ঙ্কারাহিসার”
  • Bulgarian: “Афион”
  • Bulgarian: “Афионкараисар”
  • Bulgarian: “Афионкарахисар”
  • Catalan: “Afyon”
  • Catalan: “Afyonkara Hisar”
  • Catalan: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Catalan: “Akroïnos.”
  • Cebuano: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Chechen: “АфйонкарахӀисар”
  • Chinese: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Chinese: “阿菲永”
  • Chinese: “阿菲永卡拉希萨尔”
  • Chinese: “阿菲永卡拉希薩爾”
  • Czech: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Danish: “Afyon”
  • Danish: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Afyonqerehısar”
  • Dutch: “Afyon”
  • Dutch: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “افيون قره حصار”
  • Esperanto: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Estonian: “Afyon”
  • Estonian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Estonian: “Akroinon”
  • Estonian: “Akroinos”
  • Estonian: “Karahisar”
  • Finnish: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • French: “Afyon Karahissar”
  • French: “Afyon”
  • French: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Gagauz: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Galician: “Afion”
  • Galician: “Afyon”
  • Galician: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Georgian: “აფიონ-ყარაჰისარი”
  • Georgian: “აფიონყარაჰისარი”
  • German: “Afyon”
  • German: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Gilaki: “أفیۊن قره‌حصار”
  • Greek: “Ακροϊνόν”
  • Greek: “Αφιόν Καραχισάρ”
  • Gujarati: “અફ્યોનકારહિસાર”
  • Hebrew: “אפיונקראהיסר”
  • Hindi: “अफयोंकरहिसार”
  • Hungarian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Indonesian: “Afyon”
  • Indonesian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Irish: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Italian: “Afyon”
  • Italian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Japanese: “アフィヨン”
  • Japanese: “アフィヨンカラヒサール”
  • Japanese: “アフヨンカラヒサル”
  • Kannada: “ಆಫ್ಯೊಂಕರಹಿಸರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Afʹon-Karaxïsar”
  • Kazakh: “Афионқарахисар”
  • Kazakh: “Афьон-Карахисар”
  • Kazakh: “افون-كاراحىيسار”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Akarere k’Afyonkarahisar”
  • Komi: “Афьонкарахисар”
  • Korean: “아피온카라히사르”
  • Kurdish: “Afyon”
  • Kurdish: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Kurdish: “ئافیۆنکاراهسار”
  • Lak: “АфйонкъарахӀисар”
  • Lak: “АфьонкъарахIисар”
  • Lak: “АфьонкъарахӀисар”
  • Latin: “Acroenus”
  • Latvian: “Afjonkarahisara”
  • Lithuanian: “Afionkarahisaras”
  • Lithuanian: “Afjon Karachisaras”
  • Lithuanian: “Afjonkarahisaras”
  • Malay: “Afyon”
  • Malay: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Marathi: “अफ्योणकाऱहिसार”
  • Mazanderani: “افیون قره‌حصار”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Minangkabau: “Afyon”
  • Moksha: “Афьонкарагисар”
  • Nauru: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Northern Frisian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Northern Luri: “افیون قره‌حصار”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Afyon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afyon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Norwegian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Ossetian: “Афьонкарахисар”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “افیون‌ قره حصاری”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “قره ‌حصار ساحب”
  • Persian: “افیون قره حصار”
  • Persian: “افیون قرهٔ حصار”
  • Persian: “افیون قره‌حصار”
  • Polish: “Afyon”
  • Polish: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Portuguese: “Acroënus”
  • Portuguese: “Acroino”
  • Portuguese: “Afiom”
  • Portuguese: “Afioncaraquissar”
  • Portuguese: “Afyon”
  • Portuguese: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Portuguese: “Akroinon”
  • Portuguese: “Akroinοn”
  • Portuguese: “Hapanuwa”
  • Portuguese: “Kara Hisar”
  • Portuguese: “Nicópolis”
  • Romanian: “Afyon”
  • Romanian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Russian: “Афьон-Карахисар”
  • Russian: “Афьон”
  • Russian: “Афьонкарахисар”
  • Scots: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Serbian: “Afionkarahisar”
  • Serbian: “Afyon”
  • Serbian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Serbian: “Афионкарахисар”
  • Serbian: “Афјонкарахисар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Silesian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Sinhala: “ඇෆ්යෝන්කරහිසර්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “افیون قاراحیصار”
  • Spanish: “Afium Kara hissar”
  • Spanish: “Afium Kara-hissar”
  • Spanish: “Afium-Kara-hissar”
  • Spanish: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Swahili: “Afyon”
  • Swahili: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Swedish: “Acroenus”
  • Swedish: “Acroënus”
  • Swedish: “Afium-kara-hisar”
  • Swedish: “Afium-Kara-hissar”
  • Swedish: “Afiumkarahisar”
  • Swedish: “Afiun-Karahissar”
  • Swedish: “Afyon Karahisar”
  • Swedish: “Afyon”
  • Swedish: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Swedish: “Kara Hissar”
  • Swedish: “Karahisar-i Sahip”
  • Tajik: “Афюнқараҳисор”
  • Talysh: “Afjonkarahisar”
  • Tamil: “அபியங்கரயிஸர்”
  • Telugu: “అఫ్యోన్కారాహిసార్”
  • Thai: “อัฟยองคาราฮีซาร์”
  • Turkish: “Afyon Karahisar”
  • Turkish: “Afyon”
  • Turkish: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Turkish: “Karahisar-ı Sahib”
  • Turkish: “Karahisar-ı Sahip”
  • Turkish: “Merkez”
  • Udmurt: “Афьон-Карахисар”
  • Udmurt: “Афьон”
  • Uighur: “Afyon qarahisar”
  • Uighur: “ئافيون قاراھىسار”
  • Ukrainian: “Афйонкарагісар”
  • Ukrainian: “Афйонкарахісар”
  • Ukrainian: “Афьон-Карахісар”
  • Ukrainian: “Афьонкарахісар”
  • Urdu: “افیون قرہ حصار”
  • Uzbek: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Venetian: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Vietnamese: “Afyon”
  • Vietnamese: “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Afyon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Afyonkarahisar”
  • Western Armenian: “Աֆիոնքարահիսար”
  • Western Mari: “Афьон-Карахисар”
  • Western Mari: “Афьонкарахисар”
  • Western Panjabi: “افیون قره‌حصار”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿菲永卡拉希萨尔”

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