 The town is very near to Söğüt where the Ottoman Empire was founded, but earliest reliable documents about the town go back to the 17th century.According to these documents, the settlement was a part of Köprülü Mehmet Pasha’s (an Ottoman Grand Vizier) possessions in 1661.The Pasha commissioned a complex in the town () which constituted a caravansarai, a mosque, a Turkish bath, a drinking water well and a bridge over the river.