Banaz

Banaz lies east of Uşak in a fertile plain of the western Anatolian interior. Mounds near villages such as Ahat and Oturak preserve traces of much older settlement. The district passed into Seljuk hands in the twelfth century and later belonged to the Germiyanid lands before Ottoman expansion. Under the Ottomans Banaz formed a district of Uşak, its villages occupying the plain and surrounding high ground.