Karakeçili

Southeast of Ankara, the Karakeçili country stretches between Bala and the Kızılırmak. Its name belongs to a Turkmen tribe whose branches lived across Anatolia. In the sixteenth century the Karakeçili of this region formed one of the larger groups among the Uluyörük, a confederation spread between western Sivas and the lands southeast of Ankara. Their name endured in the settlement established near the river.