Arıt is a village 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 () is a small Provinces of Turkey, province in northern Turkey on the Black Sea, surrounding the city of Bartın. Its area is 2,330 km2, and its population is 203,351 (2022). It lies to the east of Zonguldak Province. The to ...

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. Its population is 310 (2021). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''

belde Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish language, Turkish. All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the Villages of Turkey, villages are usually too ...

''). It is in a narrow valley. The village is situated in the dense forests and a National Park has been established around the village. The distance to Bartın is and the bird’s flight distance

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coast is about . In the vicinity of the town there are ruins of

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era. But the deep history of the town is not known. The name of the town may either stem from the Turkish word ''Arıtılmış'' (“purified”) or from ancient

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n word ''Erythinoi'' . According to first opinion the town was founded by

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who escaped from the never ending civil wars of the Central Anatolia in the 13th century. According to second opinion, the name of the town may refer to red soil around the town. The first written reference to the town was in 1747 when Uluslu İbrahim Hamdi referred to the town as its present name.Mayor's page

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