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Kastamonu
Kastamonu, formerly Kastamone/Castamone () and Kastamon/Castamon (), is a city in northern Turkey. It is the seat of Kastamonu Province and Kastamonu District.İl Belediyesi
, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
Its population is 125,622 (2021). The city lies at an elevation of . It is located in the southern part of the province.


History

There are many ideas about the derivation of the name Kastamonu: According to the first view, it should be considered that the name Kastamonu is Turkishized from the name Paphlagonia, Paphlagonía [Greek "land of Paphlagon (people)"]. The region covering the West Black Sea Region (statistical), West Black Sea and Central Black Sea regions was called Paphlagonia before the Turkic peoples, Turks. Today, Kas ...
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Kastamonu District
Kastamonu District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of the Kastamonu Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Kastamonu.İl Belediyesi
, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
Its area is 1,847 km2, and its population is 152,541 (2021).


Composition

There is one in Kastamonu District: * There are 177 in Kastamonu Distr ...
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Kastamonu Şeyh Şaban-ı Veli
Kastamonu, formerly Kastamone/Castamone () and Kastamon/Castamon (), is a city in northern Turkey. It is the seat of Kastamonu Province and Kastamonu District.İl Belediyesi
, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
Its population is 125,622 (2021). The city lies at an elevation of . It is located in the southern part of the province.


History

There are many ideas about the derivation of the name Kastamonu: According to the first view, it should be considered that the name Kastamonu is Turkishized from the name Paphlagonía
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Kastamonu Province
Kastamonu Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province of Turkey, in the Black Sea Region, Turkey, Black Sea region in the north of the country. It is surrounded by Sinop Province, Sinop to the east, Bartın Province, Bartın, Karabük Province, Karabük to the west, Çankırı Province, Çankırı to the south, Çorum province, Çorum to the southeast and the Black Sea to the north. Its area is 13,064 km2, and its population is 378,115 (2022). The population density is 29 inhabitants per km2. The provincial capital Kastamonu has a population of 128,707 (2022). Districts Kastamonu province is divided into 20 Districts of Turkey, districts (capital district in bold): History It is not definitively known when Kastamonu was first founded. However, some sources dating back to the Early Middle Ages refer to the province. There are also some archeological findings that date to about 100,000 years that suggest the region was inhabited at that time. There are many ideas abou ...
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Kastamonu Governor's Office
The Kastamonu Governor's Office () is the main service building of the governor ( vali) of Kastamonu Province, Turkey. The historic building hosts also a city history museum. It is situated on 10 Aralık Cad. 20/1 at Cebrail neighborhood of Kastamonu. History The Governor's Office building was constructed during the Ottoman Empire era in ashlar masonry on the place of the former wooden governor's office building dating back to 1833. Designed by architect Vedat Tek (1873–1942), a forerunner of the First Turkish National Architectural Movement, its construction began in 1900. It was inaugurated on September 1, 1901, the 25th anniversary of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II 's (reigned 1876–1909) ascending to the throne. In 2015, the historical building underwent restoration works. The building consists of three stories, a ground floor and two upper floors. Nights, it is being fully illuminated by floodlights. City History Museum The Governor's Office building hosts the 2002-esta ...
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Kastamonu Castle
Kastamonu Castle is a medieval castle in Kastamonu, Turkey. Geography The castle lies inside the urban fabric of the modern city. It is situated slightly to the south west of the city center at an elevation of about . History During the 10th century, the area around Kastamonu was under the rule of the Byzantine commander Manuel Erotikos Komnenos who built the castle bearing his name: ''Kastra Komnenon'', "Castle of the Komnenoi", a corrupted version of which later became the name of the city in Turkish, i.e. Kastamonu. The city and the castle were captured by the Chobanids (beylik), ''Çobanoğlu'' on behalf of the Seljuks of Rum. After the ''Çobanoğlu'', the castle fell to the ''Candar dynasty, Candaroğulları'' and finally to the Ottoman Empire. During the Turkey, Turkish Republic era, in 1943, a part of the castle was destroyed as a result of 1943 Tosya–Ladik earthquake. In 2005 Kastamonu municipality partially restored the castle. Building The original castle had fortif ...
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death and state funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping Atatürk's reforms, reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secularism in Turkey, secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a Secularism, secularist and Turkish nationalism, nationalist, Atatürk's reforms, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism. He came to prominence for his role in securing the Ottoman victory at the Battle of Gallipoli (1915) during World War I. Although not directly involved in the Armenian genocide, his government would later grant immunity to remaining perpetrators. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, he led the Turkish National Movement, which resisted the Empire's partition ...
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Shaban Veli
Shaban-i Veli () also written as Sha’ban Wali (d. 976 AH/1569 AD), was an Ottoman Sufi saint from Kastamonu, and founder of the Shabaniyya branch of the Khalwatiyya order. He was trained under and was a ''murid'' (disciple) of Hayreddin Tokadi of Bolu. Biography He was born in Taşköprü district of Kastamonu. An important part of the information about his life is based on the work of Ömer Fuâdî, the fifth sheikh of Şaban-ı Velî Dergah, named ''Menâkıb-ı Şerîf-i Pir-i Halveti Hazret-i Şa'bân-ı Veli''. Ömer Fuadi does not give information about his date of birth. In recent sources, the years 902 (1497) and 905 (1499-1500) are mentioned for his birth. It is claimed that he was born in 886 AH (1481 AD) based on a record in a recent Shabani license ('' icâzetnâme''), and it is stated that the same date is given in a series found in the Şaban-ı Velî Museum. Shaban-i Veli lost his mother and father at a young age and was adopted by a sissy (''hanım evladı' ...
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Byzantine Empire Under The Komnenos Dynasty
The Byzantine Empire was ruled by emperors of the Komnenos dynasty for a period of 104 years, from 1081 to about 1185. The ''Komnenian'' (also spelled ''Comnenian'') period comprises the reigns of five emperors, Alexios I, John II, Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I. It was a period of sustained, though ultimately incomplete, restoration of the military, territorial, economic and political position of the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium under the Komnenoi played a key role in the history of the Crusades in the Holy Land, while also exerting enormous cultural and political influence in Europe, the Near East, and the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. The Komnenian emperors, particularly John and Manuel, exerted great influence over the Crusader states of Outremer, whilst Alexios I played a key role in the course of the First Crusade, which he helped bring about. Moreover, it was during the Komnenian period that contact between Byzantium and the 'Latin' Christian West, includ ...
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Paphlagonia
Paphlagonia (; , modern translit. ''Paflagonía''; ) was an ancient region on the Black Sea coast of north-central Anatolia, situated between Bithynia to the west and Pontus (region), Pontus to the east, and separated from Phrygia (later, Galatia) by a prolongation to the east of the Uludağ, Bithynian Olympus. According to Strabo, the region was bounded by the river Bartin River, Parthenius to the west and the Halys River to the east. ''Paphlagonia'' was said to be named after Paphlagon, a son of the mythical Phineus (son of Belus), Phineus. Location The greater part of Paphlagonia is a rugged mountainous country, but it contains fertile valleys and produces a great abundance of hazelnuts and fruit – particularly plums, cherries and pears. The mountains are clothed with dense forests, notable for the quantity of boxwood that they furnish. Hence, its coasts were occupied by Colonies in antiquity#Greek colonies, Greeks from an early period. Among these, the flourishing city of S ...
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Bolu
Bolu is a city in northern Turkey, and administrative center of the Bolu Province and of Bolu District,İl Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
located on the highway between and . Its population is 184,682 (2021). The city has been governed by mayor Tanju Özcan ( CHP) since local el ...
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