Bayat is a town and district of Afyonkarahisar Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. The mayor is Kadir Üçer (CHP).It may be the site of Claneus, an Ancient city and bishopric in the Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris Secunda, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.NameBayat is one of a number of towns and villages in Anatolia named after a branch of the Oghuz Turks, who migrated west from the Turkish homelands in Central Asia between 1100 and 1300 AD.Settlements I the districtAkpınar, BayatAşağıçaybelen, BayatBayat, AfyonkarahisarDerbent, BayatEskigömü, BayatKuzören, BayatMallıca, BayatMuratkoru, BayatSağırlı, BayatYukarıçaybelen, BayatÇukurkuyu, Bayatİmrallı, Bayatİnpınar, Bayat