Şuhut

Municipality in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey

38°32′N 30°33′E / 38.533°N 30.550°E / 38.533; 30.550CountryTurkeyProvinceAfyonkarahisarDistrictŞuhutGovernment

• MayorRecep Bozkurt (AKP)Population

(2021)^[1]

15,054Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)Climate CsbWebsitewww.suhut.bel.tr

Şuhut (Ottoman Turkish شهود Şuhūd;^[2] formerly Ancient Greek Σύνναδα Synnada) is a town in Afyonkarahisar Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is the seat of Şuhut District.^[3] Its population is 15,054 (2021).^[1] It lies in a small plain, 29 km east of the city of Afyon. The mayor is Recep Bozkurt (AKP).

History

Excavations of a burial mound at Kepirtepe show the plain has been settled since the Neolithic period. The town was established during the Hittite period and grew under the Romans, by then it was known as Synnada. See Synnada for details on the area in antiquity and for the ecclesiastical history of the town in the Byzantine period.

Today

Today Şuhut is a country town providing schools and other amenities to the surrounding rural area. Much of the land is used for raising beef cattle and growing wheat; Şuhut is famed for the quality of its meat and wheat stew, called keşkek. There is also a poultry industry and other crops, such as sugar beet, are grown. The younger generation are migrating to larger cities in search of careers.

Places of interest

There are a number of Hittite burial mounds.
The rock tombs of Bininler
Asmakaya Castle
Atatürk's House, aka Great Offensive Headquarters, a historic house museum, which was used as temporary headquarters by then Commander-in-Chief Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) right before the Great Offensive in August 1922.^[4]^[5]
Şuhut Memorial Cemetery in dedication to the Turkish soldiers killed in action during the Great Offensive in August 1922.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Şuhut.

^ ^a ^b "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021" (XLS) (in Turkish). TÜİK. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
^ Tahir Sezen, Osmanlı Yer Adları, Ankara 2017, T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Yayın No: 26 s.v., p. 731
^ İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
^ "Ağustos'ta rekor kıracak". Şuhut Anayurt (in Turkish). 2014-06-23. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
^ "Atatürk Evi" (in Turkish). Şuhut Kaymakamlığı. Archived from the original on 2015-05-10. Retrieved 2015-08-10.