The district is located on the northern slopes of the volcano Karadağ, around 30 km (19 mi) north of the provincial capital city of Karaman.

The stone materials were reused in today's buildings and this has caused a continuous reduction of the historical inventory.

[1] In 1904, Carl Holzmann (1849–1914) published his Archäologische Skizzen (English: Archaeological Sketches) about Binbirkilise.

[2] When Bell returned to the site two years later, she found that a large part of the documented buildings had disappeared as a result of robbery for cut stone.

Turkish art historian Semavi Eyice examined the region and published the results of his research in 1971.