Akköy is a small town located about 5-6 km north of the municipality of Ezine, in the province of Çanakkale. The village, located north of the Kara Menderes river, developed on a small hill located on the southern slope of the narrow valley where the Subaşı stream, which flows into this river, passes. The village is mentioned in a document from 1530 preserved in Ottoman records. This same document specifies that Hebe Gâzi  built in Akköy a mosque, a school, a hammam, and a fountain. The mosque and the school have been destroyed but the ruins of the hammam are still visible and the fountain is still in use. On the latter, which is built with reused material, ca be read the date 718 H. (= 1318). When the complex at Akköy was built, commerical activities began, most notably the manufacture of glazed ceramics. That manufacture continued until the early years of the 21st century. However, to date there have been no excavations, so that only surface discoveries testify to this old tradition. In a field north of the village survey work has identified hundreds of ceramic shards and remains of production (e.g., kiln slag) visible on the surface; and in road cuts in the south of the village, thousands of pieces of broken pottery can be seen in the sections.

The survey findings demonstrate that Akköy was founded at the time of the Beylics and that the production of ceramics began in the 14th century in parallel with other centers from this period such as İznik, Miletus, Bergama and Kütahya. The stylistic characteristics and chronology demonstrates that the art of ceramics glazing continued in Akköy until the 17th century. It is likely that manufacture of glazed vessels was abandoned during this same century. According to Mehmed Ziya and Aşkıdil Akarca, the village's artists emigrated and settled in Çanakkale both to escape cholera epidemics, find new clay deposits, and develop their trade.*

* The above description comes from Ali Osman Uysal, "Akköy. Un centre de céramique peu connu à l’époque des beylicats" in 14th International Congress of Turkish Art (Paris, 19‑21 September 2011), F. Hitzel, ed. (Paris: 2013), pp. 831-839.