Çorum (Province)

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Çorum
Province number: 19th
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Basic data
Coordinates: 40 ° 34 ′  N , 34 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 40 ° 34 ′  N , 34 ° 40 ′  E
Provincial capital: Çorum
Region: Black Sea Region
Surface: 12,428 km²
Population: 536,483 (2018)
Population density: 43 inhabitants / km²
Political
Governor: Mustafa Çİftçİ
Seats in Parliament: 4th
Structural
Telephone code: 0364
Features : 19th
Website
www.corum.gov.tr (Turkish)

Çorum is a province of Turkey . Its capital is the Çorum of the same name . It borders - starting in the north in a clockwise direction - on the following provinces: Sinop , Samsun , Amasya , Yozgat , Kırıkkale , Çankırı and Kastamonu . The province is in 20th place in order of area (2014: 1.6% of the country's area) and in 41st place in order of population (2018: 0.65% of the country's population)

population

Results of the population extrapolation

The following table shows the annual population development at the end of the year after updating by the addressable population register (ADNKS) introduced in 2007. In addition, the population growth rate and the sex ratio (ie number of women per 1000 men) are listed. The 2011 census found 534,825 inhabitants, over 62,000 fewer than in the 2000 census.

year Population at the end of the year Population growth
rate (in%)

 Gender
ratio
(women per
1000 men) 		Rank
(among 81 provinces)
total male Female
2018 536.483 265,678 270,805 1.53 1019 41
2017 528.422 261,605 266.817 0.11 1020 41
2016 527.863 261,606 266.257 0.51 1018 40
2015 525.180 259.993 265.187 −0.39 1020 40
2014 527.220 261.187 266.033 −0.91 1019 40
2013 532.080 263.906 268.174 0.40 1016 40
2012 529.975 262.155 267,820 −0.86 1022 40
2011 534.578 265.163 269,415 −0.15 1016 39
2010 535.405 264,759 270,646 -0.98 1022 39
2009 540.704 268.501 272.203 −0.87 1014 38
2008 545,444 270.107 275,337 −0.80 1019 38
2007 549,828 271,942 277.886 −7.91 1022 37
2000 1 597.065 311,897 285.168 - 914 38

1 2000 census

Administrative division

The province of Çorum is divided into fourteen districts :

district Area 1
(km²) 		Population (2018) 2 Number of Units Density
(Ew / km²) 		urban
share (in%) 		Gender
ratio 3 		Founding
date 4.5
district Administrative headquarters
(Merkez) 		Municipalities
(Belediye) 		District
(Mahalle) 		Villages
(Köy)
Alaca 1,296 31,460 19,549 1 7th 101 24.27 62.14 1008
Bayat 717 16,525 6,021 1 5 39 23.05 36.44 1083 04/01/1958
Boğazkale 264 4.175 1,687 1 3 14th 15.81 40.41 995 07/04/1987
Dodurga 229 6,368 2,701 1 6th 12 27.81 42.42 1059 May 20, 1990
İskilip 1,170 32,546 18,010 1 14th 64 27.82 55.34 1026
Kargı 1,174 15,684 5,355 1 6th 58 13.36 34.14 1071 06/15/1936
Laçin 196 4,770 1,361 1 3 14th 24.34 28.53 964 May 20, 1990
Mecitözü 825 15,655 4,285 1 8th 54 18.98 27.37 997
Merkez 2,436 294,807 263,895 2 23 198 121.02 90.08 1015
Oğuzlar 121 5,483 2,956 1 7th 6th 45.31 53.91 1061 May 20, 1990
Ortakoy 300 8,696 2,984 2 5 14th 28.99 63.20 988 04/01/1959
Osmancık 1,273 42,980 28,216 1 18th 55 33.76 65.65 1025
Sungurlu 1999 49,082 31,149 1 16 109 24.55 63.46 1029
Uğurludağ 428 8,252 3,835 1 5 20th 19.28 46.47 952 07/04/1987
PROVINCE Çorum 12,428 536.483 16 126 758 43.17 73.85 1019

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1 Area 2014
2 Population update as of December 31, 2018
3 Gender ratio : number of women per 1000 men (calculated)
4th Ministry of Interior PDF
5Counties that were not formed until after Turkey was founded (1923).

Population of the counties

The values ​​up to 1960 are taken from e-books (from the original documents), the values ​​from 1965 onwards come from the data query of the Turkish statistical institute TÜIK - available on this website:

Census results
Counties 1927 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 2000
Corum 60,869 67,639 72,035 73,403 88.056 103,749 118,536 130,513 144,569 156,592 168.985 187,462 186.377 221,699
Alaca 26,926 35,435 37,592 40.001 46,444 51,534 54,315 58,089 56,657 55,926 56,724 57,544 54,814 53,193
Bayat - - - - - - 22,836 25,258 27,078 28,932 31,957 31,916 35,010 30,574
Boğazkale - - - - - - - - - - - - 10,425 8,190
Dodurga - - - - - - - - - - - - 13,550 10,439
Iskilip 53,763 63.004 65,780 66,145 66,611 71,478 55,618 60,031 67,434 72.173 72,569 76,344 51,877 45,327
Kargı 28,241 31,564 32,816 32,261 31,554 31,247 29,689 26,762 20,388
Laçin - - - - - - - - - - - - 12,584 9,425
Mecitözü 36,691 39,426 43,196 45,844 44,319 40,572 34,598 36,999 35,496 35,423 34,911 35,309 32,059 26,064
Oğuzlar - - - - - - - - - - - - 11,846 9,083
Ortakoy - - - - - - 9,580 9,908 11,016 11,836 12,420 12,852 13,073 11,820
Osmancik 29,199 32,644 33,129 34,628 33,494 37,748 42,960 48,915 53,849 59,576 63,018 64,937 52,490 53,758
Sungurlu 40,478 48,603 51.013 52,702 62,429 68,225 76,382 83,038 90.006 95,568 100,000 103.151 81,665 80,840
Uğurludağ - - - - - - - - - - - - 27,331 16,265
Total province 247.926 286.751 302.745 312,723 341.353 401,547 446.389 485,567 518.366 547.580 571.831 599.204 609,863 597.065

The population figures are only shown from the date on which the district ( İlçe ) became independent.

history

Lion Gate in Hattuša
  • 5000-3000 BC Chr .: The first human settlements in the area of ​​Çorum were founded about 7000 years ago. After excavations in Alacahöyük , Balımsultan, Büyük Güllücek, Boğazkale, Eskiyapar , Hüseyindede and Kuşsaray, this region was technically and culturally well developed due to the nearby raw material deposits.
  • 3000-1000 BC Chr .: During the Bronze Age, Çorum was the scene of many cities being founded. Around 2000 BC Çorum belonged to a principality of the Hattier .
  • 1950-1850 BC At this time there were trade colonies ( Karum ) of the Assyrians in this area , from which the first written reports come.
  • before 1500–1200 BC Chr .: The Hittites have the center of their empire in Hattuša , near the present day Boğazkale .
  • After the sea ​​peoples storm and the indirectly related fall of the Hittite empire, the area belongs to the empires of the Phrygians and later the Medes , only to merge into the Persian empire and then the empire of Alexander .
  • After the battles of the Diadochs , the area becomes part of the Kingdom of Cappadocia , which later becomes part of the Roman and then the Byzantine Empire.
  • 1075: Conquest by the Oghusian Turks and incorporation into the principality of the Danischmenden (Danişmend Beyliği).
  • 1276: Victory over the Mongols under the leadership of Emir Celalettin.
  • 14th century: incorporation into the Ottoman Empire .
  • 1923: Çorum becomes a province of the Republic of Turkey.
  • 1980: Turkish right-wing extremists kill around 57 members of the Alevi minority in the Çorum pogrom .

Attractions

Attractions in the province include:

The Boğazköy-Alacahöyük National Park , the thermal baths of Figanı (Beke), the barrows of Balımsultan, Büyük Güllicek, Kuşsaray, Güzelcedere, Pazarlı (the village of Çikhasan), Eskiyapar and Kalınkaya, the castles of Çorum , Kalaleğ, the castles of Çorum , Kalaleet Iskilip and Osmancık (Kundıber), the settlement ruins of Melik Gazi, Kalehisar and Gerdekkaya, the rock tombs of Iskilip Bayat and Kızılcapelit, the Great Mosque (Ulu Cami) of Çorum, the mosques of Hamid, Han, Şeyhiddin, Tab Yavsi, Şeyhiddin-i Mihri Hatun, Oğuzköy and Koca Mehmed Pasha (Imaret), the Great Mosque, the Sinan Pasha Complex, the Medresses of Alaca Hüseyin Gazi and Akşemseddin, the Koyun Baba Bridge, the bathhouses of Güpür Pasha, Ali Pashauro, Koca Mehmunged Pascha , the museums of Çorum, Alacahöyük and Boğazkale (Boğazköy).

Ruin sites

The most important and earliest settlement sites include Alacahöyük and the capital of the Hethither Hattuša , today Boğazkale (formerly Boğazköy) with the rock sanctuary of Yazılıkaya . There are impressive ruins and a small museum at both locations. The Hittite city of Šapinuwa near Ortaköy is also worth seeing .

Important days

Folk festivals

  • The Kargı Folk Festival between October 31st and November 6th

Festival

  • The International Hittite Festival in the city of Çorum on July 15th
  • Osmancık rice festival in Osmancık between November 1st and 10th
  • Mecitözü sunflower festival in Mecitözü in the last week of September

Celebrations

  • The Hıdrellez celebration in Osmancık between May 6th and 8th
  • The traditional autumn wrestling matches and music celebration in İskilip in the first week of September
  • Wrestling match and celebration in Sungurlu in autumn
  • Wrestling match in the village of Berk in Dodurga County in October

Personalities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu İl ve İlçelere Göre Nüfus Bilgileri , accessed on June 1, 2019
  2. ^ Website of the province of Çorum
  3. ↑ Directorate General of Mapping Area 2014 (PDF file) 0.25 MB
  4. ↑ Türkiye'nin En Kalabalık İlleri 2018 , accessed on June 1, 2018
  5. ↑ Directorate General of Mapping İl ve İlçe Yüzölçümleri (PDF; 0.25 MB).
  6. ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu İl İlçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusu , accessed on June 1, 2019.
  7. ↑ illeridaresi.gov.tr (PDF; 1.4 MB).
  8. ↑ Genel Nüfus Sayımları (census results 1965 to 2000).