Kirsehir is a city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, seat of Kirsehir Province and Kirsehir District, with a population of 162,989 as of 2023. Its history reaches back to the Hittites, who called the region Ahiyuva, and in antiquity it was known as Mocissus before being renamed Justinianopolis under the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in the 6th century; the Seljuks captured it in the 1070s and gave it its current name, meaning steppe city. It became the capital of Kirsehir Province in 1924, and the nearby village of Seyfe is popularly considered the geographical center of the Earth.
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1. GeoNames: Kırşehir
GeoNames geonameid 307515 (Kırşehir), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Kırşehir (Wikipedia)
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1027
In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Lead
Kırşehir is a city in Turkey.
View the Source3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 39.25, 34.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 39.25, 34.25
39.25 34.25 Csb
4. GeoNames: Kırşehir - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 307515, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 307515, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
39.14583 34.16389 P PPLA TR 40 13308775 150700 997 Europe/Istanbul
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