Konya

Konya

Konya ranks 2,847th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bray, County Wicklow, Cegléd, and Wallsend. Memorable people born in Konya include Kayqubad I, Thecla, and Onesiphorus. Memorable people who died in Konya include Sultan Walad, Malik Shah, and Mesud II. Konya has been the birth place of many religious figures, and actors and the death place of many religious figures, and politicians. Konya is located in Türkiye.

Konya is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium. In 19th-century accounts of the city in English its name is usually spelt Konia or Koniah. In the late medieval period, Konya was the capital of the Seljuk Turks' Sultanate of Rum, from where the sultans ruled over Anatolia. Read more on Wikipedia