Isparta Province

Isparta Province (Turkis: Isparta ili) is a province in soothwastren Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Afyon tae the northwast, Burdur tae the soothwast, Antalya tae the sooth, an Konya tae the east. It haes an aurie o 8,993 km² an a population o 448,298 up frae 434,771 (1990). The provincial caipital is Isparta.

Isparta Province Isparta ili
Province o Turkey
Location of Isparta Province in Turkey
Kintra	Turkey
Region	Mediterranean
Govrenment
• Electoral destrict	Isparta
Area
• Tot	8,993 km2 (3,472 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Tot	427,324
• Density	48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Area code(s)	0246
Vehicle registration	32

The province is weel kent for its aipples, sour cherries, grapes, roses an rose products, an cairpets. The best fertile lands are in the aurie namit Uluborlu. The province is situatit in the Göller Bölgesi (Lakes Aurie) o Turkey's Mediterranean Region an haes mony freshwatter lochs.

Destricts

Isparta province is dividit intae 13 destricts (caipital destrict in bauld):

• Aksu
• Atabey
• Eğirdir
• Gelendost
• Gönen
• Isparta
• Keçiborlu
• Şarkikaraağaç
• Senirkent
• Sütçüler
• Uluborlu
• Yalvaç
• Yenişarbademli

Steids o interest

Kovada Lake an Kızıldağ Naitional Pairks, Isparta Gölcüğü, Çamyol an Kuyucak forest recreation auries, Eğirdir aik an Sütçüler forest conservation auries, Eğirdir, Uluborlu an Yalvaç castles, Antiochia in Pisidia an Apollonia antiquity ceeties, Ertokuş an Dündar Bey auld theological schuils (medrese), Isparta Hızır Bey, Kutlu Bey, Firdevs Bey, İplik, Eğirdir Hızır Bey, Barla Çaşnigir, Uluğbey Veli Baba mosques, Firdevs Bey Bazaar, Eğirdir Inn (caravansary), Ertokuş Hanı Inn , Baba Sultan Mousoleum, Isparta an Yalvaç Museums.

Notable fowk

• Erkan Mumcu
• Necmettin Sadak
• Süleyman Demirel
• Zeki Demirkubuz

Gallery

• 
  Köprülü Canyon in Sütçüler destrict
• 
  Auncient Roman inscriptions in Yalvaç
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  Antioch, Pisidia in Yalvaç destrict
• 
  Lake Eğirdir in Eğirdir destrict

External links

• (in Turkis) Isparta governor's official website
• (in Turkis) Isparta municipality's official website
• (in Inglis) Isparta weather forecast information Archived 2010-04-13 at the Wayback Machine