Burdur and Isparta
The basin of Lake Burdur is already desert-like in appearance.
Impressive bad lands are developing in the clay and sand of the late tertiary, and the whitish or colourcd layers can be scen on the section of the escarpment bordering the southern edge. The settlements on this side are hardly more than large oases hugging the banks of the small rivers from the highlands and nestling in gardens a few miles from the lake. Fiat roofs predominate in ali the villages and even in Burdur they out-number tile roofs. The slope of the Soğut Daglari to the north-west is fairly densely covered with scrub. The plains of Isparta and Atabey have more water and are not so forbidding.
The country between Lake Burdur and Eğridir constitutes the heart of Pisidia and contains the threc principal cities, Burdur, Isparta, and Eğridir as well as many good-sized country towns.
The three towns have experienced various changes of fortune. Burdur and Isparta, although occupying medieval or ancient sites, did not become important until the Ottoman period as small regional centres in the middle of their respeetive plains.
They are busy towns Burdur being more populous and bustling, Isparta more aristoeratic with large fortunes tied up in the carpet trade carpets have been vvoven in the villages of the region for almost a century. They have no interesting ancient remains.
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