History of the Village

Mound settlements on the Durayda land (Bostanlıkhöyüğü, Kocahüyük, Taşlı Höyük).

Ruins of the ancient Lycaonian city of Dalisandos in the neighbouring village of Çiğdemli (Davgandos) — identified by W. M. Ramsay.

Era of the Karamanid Principality (Karamanoğulları). Capital: Lârende (Karaman).

Karamanid Ibrahim Bey II allocated the 'Oraydonya winter pasture' as a revenue source in the endowment deed of the Lârende Imaret — thought to be connected with Durayda.

Mehmed the Conqueror definitively abolished the Karamanid Principality. The region passed under Ottoman administration.

Karaman Province Endowment Survey Register (Murad Çelebi Register) — documents the transfer of Karamanid endowment properties to the Ottomans.

Durayda was registered for the first time in an Ottoman tahrir (tax survey) register (BOA, TD. nr. 40, p. 938). It appears as 'Karye-i Durayda'.

Ottoman exile-resettlement (sürgün-iskân) policy: Turkmens of the Avşar tribe from central and southern Anatolia (Karaman, Maraş, Adana, Niğde, Kırşehir, Sivas) were settled in Dobruja and Deliorman. The Celâli revolts accelerated this migration. The ancestors of the Karabağlar clan who would found Mesudiye were most likely settled in the Hacıoğlu-Pazarcık region during this period.

First Ottoman tahrir record in the Hacıoğlu-Pazarcık region. A 14-household Hacıoğlu village within the Varna district entered the registers. It is archaeologically proven that there was no settlement at all in the region between 600 and 1500 — settlement began entirely with the 16th-century Yörüks.

Second tahrir record (TD. nr. 415, p. 135).

Hacıoğlu-Pazarcık was now a town: 2 Friday mosques, 9 prayer-houses, 1 school. All 76 villages of the sub-district were inhabited by Turks: 2,876 households, roughly 14,000 people. Çayır village must have been founded in this period.

Third tahrir record (Ankara Land Registry & Cadastre, TK. nr. 113, fol. 204b).

The 'Great Ninety-Three Famine' — villages in the region were largely abandoned, and the Durayda land was deserted.

The War of '93 (Russo-Ottoman War). The wave of migration of the Turkish population of the Balkans towards Anatolia began.

İslihisar village was founded by Deliorman Turks (from the Silistra, Osman-Pazarı and Şumnu regions). The Özşahines family is also recorded in this village.

227,799 dönüm of empty land were identified in the Konya vilayet; 136,000 dönüm of it (59.7%) were in Karaman. It was deemed suitable for the settlement of ~6,800 migrants.

Construction of the Konya–Baghdad Railway began. The line passed through Karaman, easing the transport of migrants.

A total of 410 muhajir (migrant) households reached Karaman.

Members of the Karabağlar clan left Çayır village in the Hacıoğlu-Pazarcık district of Silistra province, Bulgaria. They sold their village to a Bulgarian.

Migration route: Çayır village → port of Köstence (Constanța, Romania) → by ship to Haydarpaşa (Istanbul) → by railway to Konya → Durayda.

94 muhajir households were settled at Durayda. The village was given the name 'Mesudiye' (happy, fortunate). The Tercüman-ı Hakikat newspaper (15 December 1907) and the Konya Provincial Gazette (10 December 1907) announced the settlement.

27 Bosnian muhajir households (108 people) were sent from Istanbul and settled at Durayda. Shortly afterwards they left due to a dispute. (BOA, D.H. SFR, Nr. 40/88)

Sapancalı Teacher H. Hüseyin Bey recorded the village: 40 households, population 110, a school with 40 students. The Rumeli (Balkan) style of dress and speech was still preserved.

In the electoral count, the population rose to 547.

The Surname Law. Village families took official surnames — Çotuk, Özşahines, Ay, Bayraktar, Say, etc.

The population fell back to 244 — due to severe drought and economic hardship.

First official headman (muhtar) election: Mehmet Erdoğdu.

The village primary school was built.

Ömer Özşahines (b. 1929, Mesudiye/İslihisar), son of Salih and Saliha Özşahines, was sent to the Korean War, was taken prisoner, and spent ~3 years in captivity.

Cadastral operations were completed (16 September 1955).

An irrigation cooperative was established (238 members, 9,420 hectares).

The Mesudiyespor football club was founded. They regularly beat Karamanspor and Başakspor.

By Law no. 3578, Karaman became a province (15 June 1989). Mesudiye was attached to the central district of Karaman province.

The population peaked at 535.

Cengiz Özşahines was elected headman (muhtar) — beginning 20 years of uninterrupted service.

Korean War veteran Ömer Özşahines passed away (at age 74).

The 100th anniversary of the village's founding.

Land consolidation work began (2,598 hectares).

Cengiz Özşahines stepped down after 20 years. Ali Beki Tezcan was elected headman.

Recep Evgin was elected the new headman (31 March 2024).