Bakacakkadı is 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 ...

'') in the

Gökçebey District Gökçebey District is a forested district of the Zonguldak Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Gökçebey.

Zonguldak Province Zonguldak Province () is a province along the western Black Sea coast region of Turkey. Its area is 3,342 km2, and its population is 588,510 (2022). Its adjacent provinces are Düzce to the southwest, Bolu to the south, Karabük to the sou ...

, Turkey. Its population is 3,196 (2022). Bakacakkadı is situated to the east of Turkish state highway D.750 which runs from

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coast to Mediterranean Region. A recreation and cultural center established in 1981 to celebrate Atatürk's 100. birth year and named ''Atatürk 100.yıl Hizmet köyü'' is situated north west of the town. The distance to

Gökçebey Gökçebey (before 1954: ''Tefen Pazarı'') is a town in Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part c ...

is and to

Zonguldak Zonguldak () is a List of cities in Turkey, city of about 100 thousand people in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is the seat of Zonguldak Province and Zonguldak District.kadı A kadi (, ) was an official in the Ottoman Empire. In Arabic, the term () typically refers to judges who preside over matters in accordance with sharia Islamic law; under Ottoman rule, however, the kadi also became a crucial part of the imperi ...

during the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

era In 1992, Bakacakkadı was declared a seat of township. Formerly the town economy depended on coal mines. In the early twentyfirst century

greenhouse A greenhouse is a structure that is designed to regulate the temperature and humidity of the environment inside. There are different types of greenhouses, but they all have large areas covered with transparent materials that let sunlight pass an ...

agriculture superseded the mining economy.

References

Populated places in Gökçebey District Town municipalities in Turkey Populated coastal places in Turkey {{Zonguldak-geo-stub