Selimiye, İscehisar explained

Selimiye
Settlement Type:Settlement
Pushpin Map:Turkey
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Turkey
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Turkey
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Afyonkarahisar
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:İscehisar
Timezone:TRT
Utc Offset:+3
Coordinates:38.9871°N 30.7021°W

Selimiye is a settlement in the İscehisar District, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. In 1919 it was called Selimiye but it has also been known as Sarıçayır.[1] By 2007 it was part of the municipality of Alanyurt; in 2012 the population of Selimiye was 179.[2] In 2013 the municipality of Alanyurt was abolished;[3] administratively, Selimiye became part of the village of Alanyurt.

Places of interest

Nearby are the remains of the Byzantine rock-cut İbrahim İnleri Church. Dating to the tenth or eleventh century, the church was probably divided into three aisles by arcades and had painted reliefs on its walls, one likely of the Theotokos Hodegetria.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nisanyan Yeradları. 20 January 2023.
  2. Web site: TÜİK. 20 January 2023.
  3. https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2012/12/20121206-1.htm Law No. 6360
  4. Evcim . Seckin . Olcay Uçkan . Bedia Yelda . Durak . Koray . Jevtic . Ivana . The Other Beliefs in Byzantine Phrygia and Their Reflections in Rock-Cut Architecture . Identity and the other in Byzantium: Papers from the fourth International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, İstanbul 23–25 June 2016 . 2019 . 186–187 . 24 September 2023.