Ladik

Ladik lies northwest of Konya on the site of Laodicea Combusta, one of several Anatolian cities named Laodicea. Its distinguishing epithet, meaning “burnt”, survived in the form Ladik Sūkhta in Islamic sources. Inscriptions found in and around the ancient city record the people and institutions of its countryside. The old name endured through the Turkish period, and a mosque with two minarets later rose in the town.