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Konya also known as city of Rumi: Truly one of the most spiritual places in the world

Konya is the largest province and 7th largest city in all of Turkey with a population of over 2 million. It was a historic silk road city as traders made their way through Central Anatolia. It was the capital city for the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and the Karamanids in medieval Anatolia, and you feel this stately atmosphere pervading the whole city when you walk through it.

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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (In Turkish, he's often known as "Mevlana", which is a derivative of the word for "master") was born in the year 1207. He was born farther east than modern-day Turkey, in what today we know as either Tajikistan or Afghanistan. Sufism had been developing for years, and as Rumi made his way to the cultural capital of Konya, his own beliefs and teachings developed into what we are more familiar with today.