s="apple-converted-space"> and Byzantine periods. Early in the 15th century it
fell under Turkish rule. The travel chronicler Evliya Chelebi, who visited it in
1662, recorded that it had 600 households,
a mosque, a masjid, an inn and 15 handicraft stores. During the 18th and in the
early 19th century, the town growth
rate stagnated. It was only
around 1878 that the population began to rise, at which time it had
about 450 - 500 households. The
town has two feudal residences in the shape of towers believed to date from the 16th - 17th
century
