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Inonu, west of Eskisehir, grew from a frontier settlement into an Ottoman town within the district of Sultanonu. Religious foundations helped anchor this settlement. Its Sultan Alaeddin market mosque preserves an inscription naming Hoca Yadigar, son of Sultan Ali, as patron and dating construction to 1388-89. His identity remains uncertain, despite later attempts to associate him with ruling families.

Sixteenth-century accounts reveal a town with functions beyond worship. A traveller passing through in 1529 described a strong castle and pastures where the sultans' horses were raised. The 1530 fiscal register recorded neighbourhoods, farms, a caravanserai, mills, summer pastures and rice-irrigation channels. Matrakci Nasuh's depiction of 1535 included the market mosque among houses. Further mosques in Yenice and Orta neighbourhoods belong to the eighteenth century. Together these buildings and records show a settlement sustained by endowed religious institutions, agriculture and movement along inland routes, with a neighbourhood structure that developed around places of communal worship.