Aslanapa

Aslanapa lies southwest of Kütahya in the inland country between the old cities of Cotyaeum and Aizanoi. Ottoman records knew the district as Gireği. Local tradition associates the name Aslanapa with a Türkmen family said to have come from the region of Nakhchivan. Village and personal names preserved in records of the twelfth to sixteenth centuries trace the settlement of Turkish-speaking communities across the district.