The name of the island, which has recently become famous with the name the island of the forgotten, is mentioned as "Mado" in the notebooks where Beyşehir foundations were identified and recorded for the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror in 1476, and as "Made" and "Mada" in later records. In some sources, it is rumored that the battles between the Seljuk Turks and the Byzantine Emperor took place around the island and Eşrefoğlu Mehmet Bey had a beautiful mansion built on this island when he married a woman called Mis. Mada Island is the largest island of Lake Beyşehir with an area of 8220 hectares. It is at the very end of the northwest of the lake, 35 km from the town of Şarkîkaraağ...