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Akşehir is situated between mountain and lake at the foot of Sultan Dag (2,580m). In antiquity it was called Philomelion. In 1190, the Emperor Frederic Bar-barossa came to Aksehir on the third crusade.
The Ottoman Sultan Beyazit I after his capture by Tamerlaine, died in Akşehir in 1403.
This small place is known as the burial place of Nasreddin Hodja who lived at the beginning of the 13th century. He lived here for over 50 years and died as a very old man in 1285. His tomb (türbe) is in the cemetery outside the southern border of the town. Worth seeing are the mosques Ulu Camii and iplikçi Camii, as well as the Koran school (Taş Medrese) with its beautiful porch. Also interesting is the octagonal tomb (türbe) of the mystic Seyyit Mahmut Hayrani.
Located on Ulu Cami Street in the Ann Quarter. Known as the Ruştü Bey Mansion.
The three-storey building was coastructed in the first half of the 20th century. After undergoing renovation it was opened as the Museum. The building has 2 sections on each floor and the rooms are laid out to show chronological development.
The second floor is the section where archaeological pieces are exhibited and the third floor is the section where ethnographical pieces are exhibited. On one side of the third floor there is a room which explains one of the tales of Nasreddin Hoca (Hodja), alongside a room which describes scenes from local folklore and a room dedicated to an Akşehir bride. On the other side are displayed ethnographical works. In the middle salon are exhibited pieces of 13th C. carpentry, the door of the Seyyid Mahmut Hayrani Tomb and the coffin from the Sheikh Eyüp Tomb.
The Museum of the Western Front Headquarters occupies the edifice built in the Yemeniciler CarşısıMarketplace by the then Mayor, Bostan Bey, as a Council Service Building in the years 1904 - 5. During the War of Independence the Western Front Command was located here and much of the Great Offensive was planned in this building. It continued to be used as a council building until 1965 when it underwent renovation and re-opened on the 5th July 1966 as the “Museum of Atatürk and Ethnography”.
It was renovated again in 1981 when documents, photographs and various ethnographic pieces pertaining to Atatürk and his comrades-in-arms were put on display. On the 59th anniversary of the Great Offensive, August 24th 1981; it opened again as the Museum of the Western Front Headquarters.
It underwent further renovations and improvements in between the years 1988 and 2001 that brought it to the modern standard it has nowadays.