Yabanabad

Yabanabad occupies the mountainous country north of Ankara, where forests and hot springs distinguish the landscape from the drier plateau to the south. The Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi described a district of many prosperous villages and a weekly market in the Yaban plain. The warm waters at Kızılca gave their name to one of the settlements in the district; bathing places here attracted visitors from Ankara and the surrounding country.