Karahisar
Karahisar is a town in Tavas district of Denizli Province, Turkey. It is situated at along the Akçay creek, a tributary of Büyükmenderes River. The distance to Tavas is. The population of Karahisar was 3403 as of 2012. The settlement was founded in 1530s by . The earlier name of the settlement Karaasar probably refers to Kara Fatma, the wife of the tribe. Gülfem one of the concubines of Suleyman I, the Ottoman sultan commissioned a mosque and a fountain in the settlement. In 1954 the settlement was declared a seat of township.
