Çaydeğirmeni is a
belde Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish.
All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the villages (and also subdistricts) are usually too small to have ...
(town) in
Devrek
Devrek is a town and district in Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. It was founded as Hamidiye, in the sanjak of Bolu. Devrek was incorporated into the Zonguldak Province on May 14, 1920. It is divided into five quarters, thr ...
district of
Zonguldak Province
Zonguldak Province ( tr, ) is a province along the western Black Sea coast region of Turkey. The province is 3.481 km in size and has a population of 619,703. Its adjacent provinces are Düzce to the southwest, Bolu to the south, Karabük t ...
,
Turkey
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. At it is situated in the valley of Alpaslan creek, a tributary of
Yenice River. It is north east of Devrek. The population of Çaydeğirmeni is 5130 as of 2010. The area around Çaydeğirmeni was inhabited from the 4th century BC. (late
Hellenistic period
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) The settlement was a stop on an ancient caravan route. But the present town was founded in 1993 after a merger of two villages named Kemerler and Kaypaklar.
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References
Populated places in Zonguldak Province
Towns in Turkey
Populated places in Devrek District
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