The Fixations on Çankırı/Korgun-Kurşunlu Caravan Way

Abstract

Caravansaraies, known for various names as ribat, han, caravansaray and sultan are commonly met in the age of Anatolian Seljuks. Following the capture of Byzantium in 1071, and with the attempts to make Anatolia their homes, Turks have constituted a functional net of ways around Konya and in the direction of commercial centers. Here, within the possibilities of that age, they have built khans and car¬avansaries, approximately 30-40 kilometers, for the passengers and caravans to shelter. Kurşunlu/Hodga Hasan Village Khan is one of those caravans. This khan at present is deformed. For this reason, it is hard to determine its architectural construction features correctly-especially interior features. However, the caravansaray we determined in a plateau of Hodga Hasan Village in Kurşunlu province of Çankırı has been constructed in the middle of XIII th century and it is of great importance from the point of view of having a plan pattern of "Sultan Khans" common in Anatolia as the architectural and formal features and its contribution to determining the secondary road of Çankın/Korgun-Kurşunlu. L