Hasankadı is a town ('' belde'') and municipality in the

Bartın District Bartın District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of the Bartın Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city Bartın.Bartın Province Bartın Province ( tr, ), a small province in northern Turkey on the Black Sea, surrounds the city of Bartın. It lies to the east of Zonguldak Province. The town of Bartın contains a number of very old wooden houses in a style no longer ext ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. Its population is 2,081 (2021). It is situated in the forests along the Günye creek. The distance to Bartın is about . According to town page, the town was founded by people from Zonguldak, coastal region who were forced to work in coal mines by foreign companies during the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

era. The settlement was named as Hasankadı referring to a ''

kadı A ''kadi'' ( ar, قاضي '; tr, kadı) was an official in the Ottoman Empire. The term ''kadi'' refers to judges who preside over matters in accordance with Islamic law, but in the Ottoman Empire, the ''kadi'' also became a crucial part of the ...

'' ("judge") working in the settlement.Bartın page
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Populated places in Bartın Province Town municipalities in Turkey Bartın District {{Bartın-geo-stub