Mesudiye, formerly Hamidiye, (in Greek Μεσουδιέ and Μιλάς) is a municipality and

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Ordu Province Ordu Province () is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey, located on the Black Sea coast. Its area is 5,914 km2, and its population is 763,190 (2022). Its adjacent provinces are Samsun to the northwest, Tokat to the southwest, ...

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. Its area is 1,046 km², and its population is 13,221 (2022). The town lies at an elevation of . Mesudiye is a large area of hilly countryside, villages and pasture far inland from the

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coast, south-west of the city of

Ordu Ordu () or Altınordu is a port city on the Black Sea coast of Turkey and the capital of Ordu Province. The city forms the urban part of the Altınordu, Ordu, Altınordu district, with a population of 235,096 in 2023. Name Kotyora, the origina ...

, in the direction of

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. This is a low-income district that since the 1950s has seen successive generations migrate away to jobs in

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and elsewhere. Today Mesudiye itself is a small town of 5,600 people and the whole district is sparsely populated, although busier in summer with returning Mesudiye families on vacation. Efforts are being made by the state to boost the local economy including the opening of a college of a higher education college. Mesudiye is a home to sizeable

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Turkmen population. also, was capital of Chepni Beylik Hacıemiroğulları.

History

Mesudiye has been inhabited since the

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era and has numerous remains from the time of the

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and there are a number of rock tombs from early antiquity in the area. When it was brought into the

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Mehmed 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, ...

in 1455 the area was a collection of mountain villages centred on the slightly larger village and market place known then as ''Milas''. This was renamed ''Hamidiye'' in 1876 and then Mesudiye in 1908. According to Bryer and Winfield, the later Greek name for Mesudiye (or Hamidiye) was Meletios, Melet, or Milas (Grk: Μελέτιος, Μελέτ, or Μήλας), probably derived from the Melanthios River (Melet Irmak) which runs through it and down to Ordu.

Composition

There are 71

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in Mesudiye District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. * Abdili * Akkırık * Akpınar * Alanköy * Arıcılar * Arıkmusa * Armutkolu * Arpaalan * Aşağıgökçe * Aşıklı * Bahçe * Balıklı * Bayırköy * Bayraklı * Beşpınar * Beyağaç * Beyseki * Birebir * Çaltepe * Çardaklı * Çavdar * Celalköy * Çerçi * Çitliksarıca * Çukuralan * Darıcabaşı * Dayılı * Derebaşı * Doğançam * Dursunlu * Erikköy * Esatlı * Göçbeyi * Gölbaşı * Gülpınar * Güneyce * Güvenli * Güzelce * Güzle * Hamzalı * Herközü * Ilışar * Kaleköy * Karabayır * Karacaören * Kavaklıdere * Kayadibi * Kayadibi * Kışlacık * Konacık * Köşe * Mahmudiye * Maksutalan * Merkez * Musalı * Müslümsarıca * Pınarlı * Sarıca * Sarıyayla * Topçam * Türkköyü * Üçyol * Yagmurlar * Yardere * Yavşan * Yenimahalle * Yeşilce * Yeşilçit * Yeveli * Yukarıgökçe * Yuvalı

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