Editing Afyonkarahisar (section)

==Main sights==
* [[Afyonkarahisar Castle]]
* [[Victory Museum]] (Zafer Müzesi), a national [[Museum#military museum|military and war museum]], which was used as headquarters by then Commander-in-Chief [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk)]], his chief general staff and army commanders before the [[Great Offensive]] in August 1922.<ref name="aiktm">{{cite web |url=http://www.afyonkulturturizm.gov.tr/TR,63477/muzeler.html |publisher=Ayfonkarahisar İl Kültür ve Turizm Müdürlüğü |title=Müzeler-Zafer Müzesi (Başkomutan Tarihi Milli Park Müdürlüğü) |language=tr |access-date=2015-08-10 }}</ref> In the very city center, across the fortress, featuring maps, uniforms, photos, guns from the Greco-Turkish War.
* The partly ruined [[Afyonkarahisar Castle|fortress]] which has given the city its name. To reach at the top, eight hundred stairs need to be climbed.
* The [[Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum]] which houses thousands of Hellenic, Frigian, Hittite, Roman, Ottoman finds.
* [[Afyon Grand Mosque]]
* Altıgöz Bridge, like the Ulu Camii built by the Seljuqs in the 13th century.
* Afyon mansion ({{lang|tr|Afyon konağı}}) situated on a hill overlooking the panoramic plain.
* the White Elephant - Afyon is twinned with the town of [[Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia|Hamm]] in Germany, and now has a large statue of Hamm's symbolic white elephant.

With its rich architectural heritage, the city is a member of the European Association of Historic Towns and Regions [https://web.archive.org/web/20080910004925/http://www.historic-towns.org/documents/members/turkey.doc].

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| '''Year''' ||[[1914 population statistics for the Ottoman Empire|1914]]|| 1990 || 1995 || 2000
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| '''Population''' ||285,750<ref>{{Cite book|title = History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey|last = Stanford|first = Jay Shaw|publisher = Cambridge University|year = 1976|isbn = 9780521291668|pages = [https://archive.org/details/historyofottoman00stan/page/239 239–241]|url = https://archive.org/details/historyofottoman00stan/page/239}}</ref>|| 95,643 || 103,000 || 128,516
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