Görele is a town in

Giresun Province Giresun Province (Greek language, Greek : Κερασούντα, ; ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Trabzon Province, Trabzon to the east, Gümüşhane Province, Gümüşhane to the ...

on the

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coast of eastern

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. It is the seat of Görele District.İlçe Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 18,725 (2022).

Geography

Görele is a large town on the Black Sea coast. The Black Sea coast highway from

Giresun Giresun () is a city in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about west of the city of Trabzon. It is the seat of Giresun Province and Giresun District.Trabzon Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. The city was founded in 756 BC as "Trapezous" by colonists from Miletus. It was added into the Achaemenid E ...

runs through here and Görele is about halfway between the two cities, 70 km from each. There is no real port at Görele so goods and people all come though this coast road, but there is a small fishing fleet. The main industry is hazelnut processing, and in August the whole area is busy with people harvesting hazelnuts and bringing them into town. Görele has its own kemençe style and tradition. Famous Görelean kemençe players include Halil Ağa, Picoğlu Osman and Katip Şadi.

History

The name is derived from the ancient city of Coralla, though that Pontic settlement was probably sited nearer to today's Eynesil. Much later there was a Genoese trading post here and the ruins of their castle is 20 km east of the town of Görele today.

Chepni Chepni (; ; ) is one of the 24 Oghuz Turkic tribes. History In the legend of Oghuz Qaghan, the Chepni was stated as one of the clans of the tribe of ''Gök Han'' that consists of Pecheneg (''Beçenek''), Bayandur (''Bayındır''), Chowdur ('' ...

Turks arrived in Görele from Khorasan in the early years of the 13/14th century. As the castle of Kordyle, this was one of the last Christian outposts to fall to Sultan

Mehmet II Mehmed II (; , ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (; ), was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February 1451 to May 1481. In Mehmed II's first reign, ...

after he conquered the

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in 1461. According to Pontic ballads, it was defended against the Sultan's soldier by a peasant girl until she took her life by throwing herself from a window. According to William Miller, the window could still be seen up until the Crimean War. From 1878 to 1922, it was a part of Ottoman

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. During the republican era, it became a part of newly founded

Giresun province Giresun Province (Greek language, Greek : Κερασούντα, ; ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Trabzon Province, Trabzon to the east, Gümüşhane Province, Gümüşhane to the ...

. Görele, like the rest of this coast was occupied by

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n troops for two years during the

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Prominent natives/residents

* Katip Şadi, kemençe player * Tuzcuoğlu Mehmet Ali, kemenche player * Picoğlu Osman (1901-1946) famous kemençe player * Hasan Ali Yücel poet and politician, former minister of education, and his son the poet

Can Yücel Can Yücel (; August 21, 1926 – August 12, 1999) was a Turkish poet noted for his use of colloquial language. Biography Can Yücel was the son of a former Minister of National Education, Hasan Âli Yücel, who left his mark on the history of ...

* Hamit Görele, artist and thinker *

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu (1911 – 21 September 1975) was a Turkish people, Turkish Painting, painter, mosaic-maker, muralist, writer and poet. His art work was inspired by Anatolian village scenes and folk literature, and included traditional ha ...

artist and poet * Fatih Kırtorun, poet * Salim PATAN, poet, writer and teacher * Kemal Yayla, Police Commissioner * Kemal Gürses, conductor and composerKemal Gürses profile
, gorele.gen.tr; accessed 20 May 2012).

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