Ak-Shehr (the White City), a town in the eyalet of Karaman, in Asia Minor, about 5 m. S. of a lake of the same name, and 65 m. N. W. or Konieh; pop. about 15,000. It is the seat of a pasha, and a station of considerable importance on the caravan route between Constantinople and Syria. It carries on an extensive trade, and manufactures carpets, etc. Ak-Shehr is the Philomelium of the ancient geographer Strabo, and near it the German emperor Frederick I. fought a battle with the Seljuks in 1190. It was afterward called Aksiari. Here also the sultan Bajazet I., who was a prisoner in the fortified camp of Tamerlane, died in March, 1403.