Sorgun

Sorgun lies east of Yozgat on the central Anatolian plateau. Nearby Alişar Höyük preserves traces of a much older settlement, while the surrounding plains supported farming and pastoral communities. Under the Ottomans Sorgun was a rural district of Bozok, a region named for Oghuz Turkmen groups. Sixteenth-century records list its villages as part of a network of settlements across the plateau.