Korkuteli; is a district of Antalya City in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, 60 km. northwest of the city of Antalya. In ancient times it's called Isionda, Isindos, Pisinda, or Sinda.
Korkuteli Region, for those who holiday to Antalya, which's the district to be seen.
Historical places around Korkuteli are, Termessos Ancient City, Gulluk Mountain, Sultan Alaaddin Mosque, Old Roma Temple and Kesis House.
In antiquity this area was known as Isionda and was part of Pisidia and coinage was made here. It's a suffragan of Perge. Like nearby Termessos, Isinda's a remote mountain stronghold, the people worshipped Zeus himself and even managed to resist the siege of Alexander the Great.
Pisidia later became a province of the Roman Empire, and subsequently the Byzantine Empire. Roman / Byzantine buildings in Korkuteli include the priest's house and Latin inscription in the walls of the building that later became the Hamidoglu Medrese.
Lequien gives the names of five Isidondan bishops who assisted at the Ecumenical Councils of Nicaea, Ephesus, Chalcedon and Constantinople (553), and at the Photian synod in 878. Isionda is still a titular see in the Roman Catholic Church.
The area was taken from the Byzantines by the Seljuk Turks of Giyaseddin Keyhüsrev I in 1207, and was used as a summer residence by the local Seljuk rulers. Seljuk architecture in Korkuteli includes the mosque of Sultan Alaadin and some Turkish baths and tombs.
Upon the decline of the Seljuks in the early XIV. C. the area became a stronghold of the Beylik of Teke and then the Hamidoglu clan of nearby Isparta. Finally the district was brought within the Ottoman Empire by Bayezid I. in 1392.