Çamlıdere, Ankara Çamlıdere, Ankara Çamlıdere is a town and district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, 108 km north-west of the city of Ankara. According to 2010 census, population of the district is 7297 of which 2994 live in the town of Çamlıdere. The district covers an area of , and the average elevation is . Çamlıdere was settled by the Seljuk Turks and there are a number of Seljuk period buildings in the area. A large number of fossils and petrified forest have been found in the area. The population of Çamlıdere is experiencing a rapid depopulation,
History of Ankara end of the 4th century, St. Jerome, a native of Galatia, observed that the language spoken around Ankara was very similar to that being spoken in the northwest of the Roman world near Trier. This may indicate that the older Phyrigian population had adopted the language of the Celtic invaders. The city was subsequently conquered by Augustus in 25 BC and passed under the control of the Roman Empire. Now the capital city of the Roman province of Galatia, Ancyra continued to be a center of great commercial importance. Ankara is also famous for the "Monumentum Ancyranum" ("Temple of Augustus