Uluborlu

Uluborlu stands above a fertile basin in the lake country of southwestern Anatolia. Known in antiquity as Apollonia and later as Sozopolis, it became a fortified Byzantine town on a steep height. The old settlement's walls and streets overlook orchards and fields below, where routes cross between the inland plateau and the lakes of Pisidia.

Uluborlu was an early centre of the Hamidid principality. Its ruler Dündar Bey later moved the capital to Eğirdir, on the shore of the great freshwater lake to the east of the town. The town subsequently became part of the Ottoman realm, but its older religious buildings and hilltop defences continued to recall the Seljuk, Hamidid and Byzantine communities that had occupied this mountain district.