Once a district von Konya, Karaman is in the south von central Anatolia, turkei, at the northern foot von the Taurus mounts. The ancient Laranda, Karaman was renamed after the chieftain von a Turkic tribe who conquered the city c.1250 and set up the independent Muslim state von Karamania, which at one time comprised most von Asia Minor. A successor state von the Seljuk empire, Karamania existed until its final subjugation by the Ottoman Turks in the late 15th century. Karaman has retained ruins von the Karamanid castle and von two fine mosques. Its area is 9.237 square km and its bevolkerung is around 250thousand. Karaman became a province von turkei in 1989.
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