Administrative, economic and social statue of Burdur central district in Republic era (1923-1960)

Burdur is located in the Southwest Anatolia, in the region called the Göller Yöresi. The first settlement around Burdur, located in the Ancient Pisidia Region, was in the Upper Paleolithic period. Burdur and its surroundings, which came under Hittite rule in the Late Bronze Age, later came under the rule of Phrygia, Lydia, Persian Empire, Macedonia, Pergamon Kingdoms, Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empires. Burdur, which was conquered by the Seljuk State of Turkey in 1182, was under Mongol domination for a short time, and then was administered by the Hamidoğulları Principality and the Ottoman State. Burdur, which was connected to the Anatolian Beylerbeylik in Kütahya under the Ottoman administration, became a liva of the Karaman Province with the administrative change made in 1856. With the 1864 Provincial Regulations, a county connected to the Hamit Sanjak of the Konya Province became a liva affiliated to the Konya Province in 1872. Burdur was destroyed by the 6.9 earthquake that occurred on October 3, 1914. It was occupied by the Italians on 28 June 1919, before it could heal the wounds of the earthquake. Burdur, which was under Italian occupation for two years, provided all kinds of material, moral and military support to the National Struggle. Burdur, which was an independent liva in 1920, became a province of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. In Burdur, whose economy is largely based on agriculture and animal husbandry, handicrafts such as weaving, carpet weaving, shoemaking, copper work, carpentry and leatherwork were important. The economic crisis experienced in 1929 negatively affected all production activities in Burdur and reduced the prices of the products. Burdur, which has workshop style production, met with the first factory in the modern sense, Burdur Sugar Factory, which was opened in 1955. With the opening of the Sugar Factory, the population of the central district of Burdur increased, the city started to grow and cattle husbandry also developed with the use of pulp from the factory as feed. Beginning in the 1940s, there have been developments in the fields of education and health. In the 1957 elections, it drew a different picture from the general of Turkey and became the only province in which the Hürriyet Party had deputies. By 1960, the central district of Burdur had become a self-sufficient city with two sub-districts, 66 villages, 63,713 population, Burdur Sugar Factory, which is considered a strategic institution, education and health institutions.