Istanoz

İstanoz, now Korkuteli, lay in Antalya's inland country at the meeting of routes across southwestern Anatolia. Under the Teke rulers it was a political centre whose fortunes were tied to the coastal city without being identical to them. In 1423 the Teke ruler Osman Çelebi joined an attempt to recover Antalya from Ottoman control. An Ottoman raid on his base at Korkuteli killed him and ended the principality's remaining bid for power.

Ottoman records give the settlement a more detailed outline. In 1455 it had four named quarters, three Muslim and one non-Muslim. A survey of 1568 listed İstanoz as a subdistrict of Antalya with fifty-three dependent villages. The seventeenth-century traveller Evliya Çelebi described its western castle and its use as a summer retreat for Antalya. The town consequently combined an upland administrative role with seasonal links to the hotter Mediterranean coast.