Eregli Attractions

Central Anatolia

Unlike Karadeniz and Marmara Ereglisi, Eregli (Konya Ereglisi), a country town lying off the major routes in the steppe country between Konya and Adana, has no special attractions, only a small museum of local history on the main street. Although the area around Eregli was already part of Lykaonia, in antiquity the town was first called Kybistra and later Herakleia of Cappadocia. There was a fortress here in Byzantine times, which the Arabs captured in 806. Being strategically situated near the route through the Cilician Gates, Haroun al-Rachid and Halif al-Mamum fortified the town again in the ninth century For a time Herakleia belonged to Little Armenia (1211) before being ceded to the Seljuks and then falling to the Mongols. In 1467 it passed to the Ottomans as part of the Karaman Empire.