آفیون قره حصار

Ottoman Turkish

Afyonkarahisar province

Etymology

Morphologically from آفیون (afyon, “opium”) + قره (kara, “black”) + حصار (hisar, “fortress, stronghold”). In the medieval times the city was named قره حصار (kara hisar) after the ancient fortress situated upon a volcanic rock above the settlement and subsequently renamed قره حصار صاحب (kara hisar-ı sahib) after the city was conquered by the Persian vizier Sâhib Ata. The origin of the name آفیون (afyon) is unclear: it could derive from the Ancient Greek name for the settlement, Ἀκροϊνόν (Akroïnón), through deformation.

Proper noun

آفیون قره حصار • (afyon kara hisar)

1. Afyonkarahisar (a city and province in the Aegean region, Turkey)

   Synonym: قره حصار صاحب (kara hisar-ı Sahib) (obsolete)

Descendants

• Turkish: Afyonkarahisar

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Afyonkarahisar”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Afyonkarahisar”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 10