The distance to Karaman is 35 km (22 mi).

The name of the town means "poor" in older Turkish, because the earliest inhabitants were nomads.

The town was founded as a result of an operation of the Ottoman Empire government to settle the nomadic tribes in 1887.

The government settled the Turkmen tribe named Sarıkeçili in the Kisecik.

[4] The main crops of the town are cereals, legume and sugarbeet.