Hüseyinabad

Huseyinabad belongs to the inland Anatolian country around present-day Alaca, south of Çorum. The related name Hüseyinova denoted a district whose extent reached beyond the modern town. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it formed part of the administrative landscape associated with Zile, within the Ottoman province of Rum. Before 1574, Hüseyinova had become a separate kaza. Its widest boundaries extended toward Sorgun and south of present-day Yozgat, linking the Alaca country to a much larger network of villages and revenue districts.

The Ottoman settlement also acquired religious buildings that outlasted changes in administrative boundaries. The Eski Mosque was built in 1763 by Ömer Osman Pasha. Together with the Hüseyin Gazi tomb, it forms part of Alaca's inherited Islamic landscape. The history of Huseyinabad thus includes both the changing jurisdiction of an Anatolian district and the patronage that gave its town a lasting place of communal worship.