Altınordu

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Altınordu
Altınordu Coat of Arms
Altınordu (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Ordu
Coordinates : 40 ° 59 '  N , 37 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 59 '5 "  N , 37 ° 52' 45"  E
Height : 4  m
Residents : 217,640 (2019)
Telephone code : (+90) 452
Postal code : 52 xxx
License plate : 52
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Mayor : Mehmet Hilmi Guler ( AKP )
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Altınordu , widely known under its previous name Ordu ( Turkish for "army / army" , Greek ύοτύωρα , transcription : Kotyora ) is the largest district of the Turkish city ​​of the same name, Ordu . The district is located in a small bay on the eastern Black Sea coast , the city center has more than 217,640 inhabitants.

geography

Altınordu is located on a long, rocky stretch of beach on the E 70 coastal motorway , about 60 kilometers east of Ünye and 50 kilometers west of Giresun . The place is dominated in the west by the 550 meter high Boztepe mountain, which is covered with dense forests . The landscape of the Black Sea region between Ünye and Giresun is best known for its hazelnut gardens and forests. Hazelnut production is the main economic factor in the city.

The motorway runs through the city along the Black Sea coast in the direction of the next larger cities, Samsun , about 150 kilometers to the west, and Trabzon , 180 kilometers to the east. Altınordu has a small port where large ships can stop over.

The city is affectionately known as Küçük Paris (“Little Paris”) among the citizens , as a narrow network of streets runs through the city and eye-catching, sometimes slender buildings are part of the cityscape.

Climate diagram of the city of Ordu

etymology

Ordu means "army" in the Turkish language . The name may have been given to the city during the 15th century due to its importance as an Ottoman base. Alternatively, the name could also be derived from the Greek Kotyora .

Ordu was also the name for the tent among the Turkish and Mongolian tribes. The German term “ Horde ” is borrowed from the Polish horda , which in turn comes from the Turkish ordu from Tatar urdu , “camp”, compare urmak , “to beat”.

history

The main shopping street is a pedestrian zone

According to legend, the Argonauts landed here on their way to Colchis . The oldest finds from the Ordu area date from around 1500 BC. The city of Kotyora was founded by immigrants from the Milesian colony of Sinope . Arrian , Diodorus and Ptolemy mention the city in their reports. Various "founding dates" in the 8th and 7th centuries BC Are called. Kotyora thus became part of the chain of Greek colonies along the Black Sea coast, which were settled from the ancient Aegean city ​​of Miletus . Ancient Kotyora was the place where Xenophon's Greeks ( March of the Ten Thousand ) rested for 45 days before leaving for Asia. Around 180 BC Kotyora became part of the kingdom of Pontus under King Pharnakes I. In Byzantine times, the population seems to have shrunk.

The Danish Menden dynasty ruled from 1095 to 1175 . In 1883 a major fire destroyed the city. Ordu was briefly under Russian occupation in the 19th century.

population

The population consists of Turks , some Georgians (Turkish Gürcüler ), Lasen , Muslim Armenians ( Hemşinliler ) and a very small community of descendants of the Greeks who refused to leave the region.

Cityscape

The coastal road E 70 is called Ataturk bulvarı within the urban area , a market hall borders the central square west of this street. The city center is characterized by pedestrian zones with modern residential and commercial buildings. There are hardly any houses left from the Ottoman era. The oldest buildings date from the 19th century. In the city center, an Armenian church has been rededicated as a cultural center.

Ordu University has existed since 2006 . A two kilometer long cable car, completed in 2011, leads to the Boztepe excursion mountain.

The restored Greek Orthodox Taşbaşi Church from 1853 stands above the arterial road towards Samsun. It was used as a prison for a while and originally served as the parish church for the Hypapante feast of the Orthodox churches . After a renovation, cultural events are now taking place there. The building has two circumferential rows of windows with flat arched beads on all four sides. The longitudinal walls are divided into five wall surfaces by pilasters that lead into a cornice at the eaves , the gable ends into three surfaces. The cornice continues on the gables.

Construction work for Ordu-Giresun Airport began in July 2011 on an artificial island in the sea 15 kilometers east of the city. It was completed in 2015.

economy and politics

The city is the center of a large hazelnut industry, for example Sağra (one of the largest hazelnut processors and exporters) and Fiskobirlik (largest hazelnut cooperative in the world).

Culture

The local music tradition is typical of the Black Sea region. The most famous instrument is the kemençe .

The cuisine is Turkish and Georgian influenced. Fish and cabbage dishes are typical. Local specialties include:

Sports

Ordu 19 Eylül Stadyumu , home of the Orduspor football club, is located in Altınordu .

Personalities

Twin cities

Web links

Commons : Ordu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nufusu.com , accessed February 10, 2020
  2. ↑ Xenophon, Anabasis , V. 5.
  3. ↑ On the different founding dates of Sinope (631 and before 756 BC) s. especially A. John Graham : The Date of the Greek penetration of the Black Sea. , BICS (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies ) V, 1958, pp. 25ff. (with naming of the ancient sources and interpretation); see. also: Robert Drews: The earliest Greek Settlements on the Black Sea. JHS 96 (1976), pp. 18-31, esp. 18f .; Norbert Ehrhardt : Miletus and its colonies. Comparative study of the cultural and political institutions (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences. Volume 206) . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York 1983; Ekrem Akurgal - Ludwig Budde : Preliminary report on the excavations in Sinope (= Türk Tarih Kurumu yayınlarından. Volume 14). Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, Ankara 1956.
  4. ↑ Ordu. (PDF; 8.6 MB) Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 2011, p. 9f
  5. ^ Thomas A. Sinclair: Eastern Turkey. An Architectural and Archaeological Survey. Volume 2. The Pindar Press, London 1989, ISBN 0-907132-33-2 , pp. 116f.
  6. ↑ Turkey lays the foundation stone for Europe's first artificial island airport. ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Middle East Monitor, July 25, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.middleeastmonitor.com