Çorum
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 Entrance to the fortress of Çorum |
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| Province (il) : | Çorum | |||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 33 ' N , 34 ° 57' E | |||
| Height : | 801 m | |||
| Residents : | 267,032 (2019) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 364 | |||
| Postal code : | 19,000 | |||
| License plate : | 19th | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Mayor : | Halil İbrahim Aşgın ( AKP ) | |||
| Postal address : | Yeniyol Mah. Gazi Cad. No: 2 PK 19200 Çorum |
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| Çorum district | ||||
| Residents : | 297,224 (2019) | |||
| Surface: | 2,436 km² | |||
| Population density : | 122 inhabitants per km² | |||
Çorum is a Turkish city in the Anatolian Black Sea region. It is the capital of the province of the same name Çorum . Çorum is located on the northeastern edge of the fertile plain of the same name, east of the Çorum Çayı river, about 800 m above sea level.
At the same time, Çorum is the center of the central district ( Merkez ). This has borders with Mecitözü District in the east, Alaca District in the south, Uğurludağ District in the west, İskilip and Oğuzlar Districts in the northwest and Laçin District in the north. It also borders three districts of Amasya Province in the northeast .
In addition to Çorum, the central district consists of another municipality (Belediye): Düvenci with 1,680 inhabitants. 198 villages ( Köy ) also belong to the district . That is the highest number in the province. An average of 148 people live in each of the villages. Konaklı is the largest village (698 inhabitants). The former village of Bayat has been a district (mahalle) of the city of Çorum since 2018.
population
Population development
The following table shows the comparative population level at the end of the year for the province, the central district and the city of Çorum as well as the respective share at the higher administrative level. The figures are based on the address-based population register (ADNKS) introduced in 2007.
| year | province | district | city | ||
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| real | % | real | % | real | |
| 2018 | 536.483 | 54.95 | 294,807 | 89.51 | 263,895 |
| 2017 | 528.422 | 55.65 | 294.050 | 90.18 | 265.171 |
| 2016 | 527.863 | 54.67 | 288,578 | 89.82 | 259.205 |
| 2015 | 525.180 | 53.44 | 280.631 | 89.25 | 250.464 |
| 2014 | 527.220 | 52.28 | 275,610 | 88.42 | 243,698 |
| 2013 | 532.080 | 50.91 | 270,864 | 87.40 | 236.738 |
| 2012 | 529.975 | 50.05 | 265,242 | 87.15 | 231.146 |
| 2011 | 534.578 | 49.01 | 261,973 | 86.24 | 225,927 |
| 2010 | 535.405 | 47.77 | 255.767 | 85.28 | 218.130 |
| 2009 | 540.704 | 46.64 | 252.194 | 84.23 | 212,418 |
| 2008 | 545,444 | 45.49 | 248.109 | 83.26 | 206,572 |
| 2007 | 549,828 | 44.30 | 243,600 | 83.06 | 202.322 |
For Census 1985, there were in addition to the county seat (Şehir) with 96,725 inhabitants, four Bucaks the central (Merkez) with 54,177, Cemilbey (6597), Büyüklaçin (11,458) and Seydim (18,505 inhab.). That was a total of 187,462 inhabitants.
history
In the period from 5000 to 3000 BC The first human settlements were established in the Çorum area. According to the excavations in Alacahöyük , Balımsultan köyü, Büyük Güllücek, Boğazkale , Eskiyapar , Hüseyindede and Kuşsaray, this region was technically and culturally well developed because of the large deposits of raw materials nearby.
In the Bronze Age (3000–1000 BC) numerous settlements emerged in the region around Çorum. Around 2000 BC The Hattier lived here . In the period from approx. 1950-1850 BC There were trade colonies of the Assyrians in this area . The Hittites ruled here from around 1650 to 1200 BC. Chr.
In the later centuries, Çorum shared the history of Cappadocia . The Phrygians , Persians , Macedonians , Romans , Byzantines and other peoples ruled here . After the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, the Seljuk Turks conquered the region and made it part of the beylik of the Danischmenden . This was followed by multiple changes of power between Rum-Seljuks and Danischmenden. After 1243 the region came temporarily under Mongolian rule. From the 1360s, Çorum was under the rule of the Emir Hacı Sadgeldi as part of the Ottoman Empire . In 1509 the city was one of the centers of the Şahkulu revolt. Çorum was also affected by the Celâlî uprisings at the beginning of the 17th century.
After Turkey was founded in 1923, Çorum became the provincial capital. The name “Çorum” is of Armenian origin and can be traced back to the 16th century in Ottoman documents. The time when the city was founded cannot be limited. It developed around the castle "Çorum Kalesi", which Evliya Çelebi describes as a Seljuk building. In the middle of the 16th century, four mahalles (neighborhoods) formed the interior of the castle.
After Turkey withdrew from the Central Powers , numerous foreigners were interned here in 1944/45 .
The Çorum pogrom took place here in 1980 , when Turkish right-wing extremists killed around 57 members of the Alevi minority.
On May 20, 1990, the northern part of the central district was split off as the district of Laçin , the Bucak Büyüklaçin (1985 census: 11,458 inhabitants).
Attractions
In the center of the city of Çorum, on a slight hill, there is a hospital built in 1914 with two corner projections , which is later used as a school building and since 2003 as an archaeological museum . This is divided into an archaeological and an ethnographic section. While the latter part presents the history of popular culture in modern times, the first, designed according to modern criteria, is dedicated to the archaeological remains in the Çorum region: In numerous showcases, recent finds from the various excavation sites in the area are exhibited, in which cultures of Anatolia are exhibited reflect. In the park in front of the museum there are stone objects from the Greco-Roman period, including sarcophagi and gravestones with inscriptions and pictorial representations as well as milestones of Roman emperors written in Latin, primarily from the 3rd century AD.
The Seljuk or Ottoman citadel of Çorum is located about 500 meters from the museum north of Cengiz Topel Caddesi .
university
Until 2006 there was a branch of Gazi University in Çorum . In 2006 it was decided to turn it into an independent university and to name this Hittite University ( Hitit Üniversitesi in Turkish ).
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Çorum (776 m)
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Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Cornelius Bischoff (1928–2018), lawyer, was a student at the boarding school of the Austrian St. Georgs College in Istanbul. In July 2011 he received the honorary citizenship certificate for extraordinary services to the city of Çorum and all of Turkey. In his life he had translated excellent works into the German language and thus deepened the friendly relationships.
sons and daughters of the town
- Hayrettin Karaman (* 1934), Islamic theologian, journalist and writer
- Mahmut Atalay (1934-2004), wrestler and Olympic champion in 1968
- Tevfik Kış (1934-2019), wrestler
- Ismail Çoban (* 1945), painter and graphic artist
- Şefik Alp Bahadır (* 1946), economist
- Necati Şahin (* 1955), actor and theater director
- Soner Yalçın (* 1966), non-fiction author and investigative journalist
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on April 13, 2020
- ↑ Central Dissemination System / Merkezi Dağıtım Sistemi (MEDAS) of the TÜIK , accessed on June 1, 2019
- ↑ Bilge Umar: Türkiye'deki Tarihsel Adlar. Istanbul 1993, p. 191
- ↑ P. Siegfried Pruscinsky CM (author) Exiled to Anatolia: Records 1944-1945 , Verlag Alt-Mödingen 2015, ISBN 978-3902405081
- ^ Museum website
- ↑ www.hitit.edu.tr (homepage)
- ↑ see also English Wikipedia
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Report St. Georgs-Blatt 10/2015
