Country Turkey Elevation 1,370 m (4,500 ft) Postal code 70000 Area code 0338 | Province Karaman Province Time zone EET (UTC+2) Population 151 (2011) | |
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District Karaman central district | ||
Yukarıakın is a village in the central district (Karaman) of Karaman Province, Turkey. At 36°53′N 33°01′E it is situated in the Taurus Mountains. Its distance to Karaman is 59 kilometres (37 mi). The population of the village was 151 as of 2011. According to page of Karaman news, the founders of the village were the members of a tribe named Ağaçeri and were Akıncı (irregular cavalry in the early years of the Ottoman Empire) . The original name of the village was Akın. But in the second half of the 19th century the village was split into two parts. Yukarıakın (literally "upper Akın") is the name of the western part. The main economic activity of Yukarıakın is agriculture.
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