Görele District is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

of the

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 ...

of Turkey. Its seat is the town of

Görele Görele is a town in Giresun Province on the Black Sea coast of eastern Turkey. It is the seat of Görele District.

.İlçe Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its area is 237 km², and its population is 30,973 (2022).

Geography

The district is mainly mountainous and watered by streams and rivers running into the Black Sea, the highest peaks are

Mount Sis Mount Sis () is a mountain in Görele, Giresun Province, Turkey, very near the border with Trabzon Province. Its elevation is 2182 m (7159 ft) and it is part of the Pontic Mountains. Mount Sis Festival () attracts hundreds of people from Giresu ...

and ''Haç'' (Haş). Up to 600m the hillsides are covered with

hazelnuts The hazelnut is the nut (fruit), fruit of the hazel, hazel tree and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus ''Corylus'', especially the nuts of the species ''Corylus avellana''. They are also known as cobnuts or fil ...

, along with

alder Alders are trees of the genus ''Alnus'' in the birch family Betulaceae. The genus includes about 35 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the north temperate zone with a few species ex ...

, poplars and other deciduous trees. The agriculture of the district is mainly hazelnuts along with some tea planting, beekeeping, and gardening for domestic consumption, while the higher elevations are forest and pasture. Recently

trout Trout (: trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', ''Salmo'' and ''Salvelinus'', all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the ...

farming has begun in the mountain waterways. The high pasture lands have begun to attract visitors on trekking holidays. Traditionally in this part of the world people would move their sheep and cattle to the high pastures ('' yayla'') for summer grazing and today this has become something of an event with summer folklore festivals in places like Sis Dağı attracting visitors from all over Turkey, who come to hear the Kemençe and watch people dance the Horon. The sale of local costumes and craftwork such as wooden toys and woven goods bring extra income to the district. The climate is typical of the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...

region; it rains in every season and in the high mountains it snows in winter. The mountain hinterland is hard to access, with many dirt roads and the villages are continuously shrinking as the villagers migrate to Turkey's larger cities in search of work.

Composition

There are two

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in Görele District: * Çavuşlu *

Görele Görele is a town in Giresun Province on the Black Sea coast of eastern Turkey. It is the seat of Görele District.

There are 62

villages A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village ...

in Görele District:Köy
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. * Akharman * Aralıkoz * Ardıç * Ataköy * Aydınlar * Bayazıt * Beşirli * Boğalı * Burunucu * Çalış *

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* Çatakkırı *

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* Dayılı * Dedeli * Dereboyu * Derekuşçulu * Dikmen *

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* Eserli * Gölbaşı * Gülpınar * Gültepe * Güneyköy * Güvendik * Hamzalı * Haydarlı * İnanca * İsmailbeyli * Kaleköy *

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* Recepli * Şafaklı * Sağlık * Şahinyuva * Seferli * Şenlik * Sofulu * Soğukpınar * Taşlık * Tekgöz * Tepeköy * Terziali * Türkelli * Umutlu * Yalıköy * Yeğenli * Yeşildere

References

Districts of Giresun Province * {{Giresun-geo-stub