Kastamonu
| Kastamonu | ||||
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 From the clock tower hill towards the castle |
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Kastamonu | |||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 23 ' N , 33 ° 47' E | |||
| Height : | 800 m | |||
| Residents : | 124,454 (2019) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 366 | |||
| Postal code : | 37 100 | |||
| License plate : | 37 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 20 meals | |||
| Mayor : | Rahmi Galip Vidinlioğlu ( MHP ) | |||
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| Kastamonu County | ||||
| Residents : | 152,553 (2019) | |||
| Surface: | 1,847 km² | |||
| Population density : | 83 inhabitants per km² | |||
Kastamonu is the capital of the province of the same name in northern Turkey and at the same time the center of the central district ( Merkez ). The city lies in the valley of the Gökırmak , a tributary of the Kızılırmak .
geography
location
Kastamonu is located at an altitude of 800 meters in the wide valley of the Karaçomak Deresi river between partially forested hills that form a transition between the steeper mountain ranges ( Küre Dağları ) on the Black Sea coast in the north and the Ilgaz Dağları mountain range in the south. Both are part of the Pontic Mountains . Tall pine forests thrive on the hills surrounding the city in the south. To the south of the city is the Karaçomak Dam .
The D765 trunk road crosses the city in a north-south direction from İnebolu on the Black Sea, just under 100 kilometers away, and continues to Ankara . The industrial city of Karabük is 115 kilometers to the west.
The area is known for processing tobacco , producing cigarette paper and wooden furniture.
Cityscape
The center of the city is the square, called Nasrallah Meydanı , in front of the town hall, the former governor's seat, which the architect Vedat Tek designed in the historicizing style in 1910 . From a viewing hill with a clock tower at its top in the southeast of the square, you can overlook the city center with the 112 meter high castle hill a few hundred meters to the west. From the under the Komnenen in the 11./12. Founded in the 18th century, larger parts of the outer walls and buildings within have been preserved or restored.
The main mosque in the center ( Nasrallah Camii ) from 1506 goes back to a foundation by Nasrallah Bey, a city judge. Nine domes cover a square prayer room. The cleaning fountain is worth seeing. The name of this man is also borne by a bridge from the Ottoman era near Gökırmak with two arches of different widths. The Atabeygazi Camii is a large mosque built in 1273 with a flat hipped roof over a rectangular floor plan at the foot of the castle hill.
Most of the other Ottoman buildings are also on the west side of the river across from Nasrallah Meydanı . This includes the Çifte Hamamı , a hammam with two roof domes, one of which is over a narrow octagonal drum . Also preserved are two Hane , the Aşirefendi Hanı and İsmail Bey Hanı. The latter belongs to the pre-Ottoman mosque complex of Ismail Bey Külliyesi from the 15th century and is located in the south of the city. A nearby Phrygian burial site is called the "rock house". On its gable is a relief of a man accompanied by mounts on both sides.
The Türbe of Pir Şeyh Şaban-i Veli, who died in 1568/69, is also in the simple, traditional residential area south of the castle . The men visit the mosque next to it, which, together with the Türbe and carefully restored residential buildings, is part of a Tekke of the Halveti Sufi order.
Today's rapid urban expansion with large apartment blocks takes place over a length of about three kilometers in the plain along the river to the north. The bus station is five kilometers from the center in this direction outside in the open field. Kastamonu Uzunyazı Havalimanı Airport, which was established south of the city in 1990 , was not used after it opened until it reopened in June 2013. A regular connection to Istanbul Ataturk Airport is planned after the reopening .
district
The central district is bordered to the north by the circles Seydiler and Devrekani , to the east by Keis Taşköprü , the south by the county Tosya , on the southwest by the circles Ilgaz (province of Çankırı ) and İhsangazi and the west by the district Daday . It is the largest district in the province and also has the largest population (2018: 38.85% of the provincial population). The number of villages ( Köy ) is the highest in the province at 177. On average, 173 people inhabit each village. Gölköy (1,799), Merkez Bucağı Emirler (1,091) and Yukarıbatak (544) are the largest villages, the other 174 villages have fewer than 500 inhabitants. Kurucaören is the smallest village with 44 inhabitants. The village of Budamış has been a mahalle (district) of the provincial capital since 2018. The villages are grouped into three Bucaks : Bucak Merkez (90), Bucak Akkaya (32) and Bucak Kuzyaka (55 villages).
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Kastamonu (800 m)
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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 Kastamonu 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 | 383.373 | 38.85 | 148.931 | 79.42 | 118.282 |
| 2017 | 372.373 | 39.14 | 145.754 | 80.09 | 116,737 |
| 2016 | 376.945 | 38.76 | 146.103 | 78.12 | 114.131 |
| 2015 | 372,633 | 37.82 | 140.944 | 78.69 | 110.908 |
| 2014 | 368.907 | 37.24 | 137.391 | 75.50 | 103.724 |
| 2013 | 368.093 | 36.05 | 132.710 | 74.19 | 98,456 |
| 2012 | 359,808 | 35.72 | 128,537 | 74.86 | 96.217 |
| 2011 | 359,759 | 34.96 | 125,787 | 74.21 | 93,347 |
| 2010 | 361.222 | 34.32 | 123.972 | 73.41 | 91.012 |
| 2009 | 359,823 | 33.31 | 119,867 | 71.82 | 86,085 |
| 2008 | 360.424 | 32.15 | 115,871 | 69.86 | 80,946 |
| 2007 | 360.366 | 32.00 | 115,332 | 69.87 | 80,582 |
Census results
The following population information about the city, the district, the province and the country is available for the censuses:
| region | 1965 | 1970 | 1975 | 1980 | 1985 | 1990 | 2000 |
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| City (Şehir) | 23,485 | 29,338 | 29,993 | 35,464 | 46,986 | 51,560 | 64,606 |
| central circle (Merkez) | 67.093 | 79.279 | 80,099 | 88,321 | 98.109 | 94,279 | 102.059 |
| Province (İl) | 441,638 | 446601 | 438.243 | 450.946 | 450.353 | 423.611 | 375.476 |
| Turkey | 31,391,421 | 35.605.176 | 40,347,719 | 44,736,957 | 50,664,458 | 56.473.035 | 67,803,927 |
history
The region is, according to finds that date back to the 13th century BC. Can be dated BC, settled at the latest since Hittite times. In the 11th century the place was taken by the Rum Seljuks and then by their opponents, the Danischmenden from Sivas . The name of the city is probably derived from Castra Comneni ("Fortress of the Comnenes"). This is what a fortified residence of the Komnenes , a ruling noble dynasty in the Byzantine Empire, called itself in the 12th century . The city was called Kastamon (Κασταμών) at that time .
In the 14th and 15th centuries, the city is mentioned in connection with the trade of the Genoese colonies on the Black Sea. After the collapse of the Sultanate of Rum , Kastamonu was first under the rule of the Çobanoğlu family , and in 1309 it was conquered by Candar . Kastamonu belonged to the Ottoman Empire for the first time in 1393 and then finally from 1459 . In the meantime, regional princes appointed by the Mongol Timur Lenk had ruled. In the Ottoman Empire, Kastamonu was initially a sandschak , from which the Vilayet Kastamonu was formed in the 19th century .
In the 19th century a cook named Hamdi from Kastamonu is said to have prepared a Turkish doner kebab for the first time .
In August 1925, Ataturk , the founder of the Turkish republic, traveled to the province of Kastamonu, which at the time was considered to be particularly Islamic-conservative, and on August 30, from the terrace of today's Archaeological Museum, gave a fiery speech against wearing the oriental headgear Fez and asked all Turkish men to do one wearing a modern hat as part of a secular state reform.
Sights in the area
- Kasaba , village 17 kilometers northwest with a post-Seljuk wooden pillar mosque from 1366
- Ilgaz Mountain ( Ilgaz Dağı ) 2587 meters, hiking and winter sports area, about 40 kilometers south
- Ancient city of Pompeiopolis near Taşköprü
- Ilgarini Cave , one of the longest caves in Turkey
sons and daughters of the town
- Latîfî (1491–1582), Turkish biographer
Daily newspapers
- Kastamonu Postası
- Kastamonu Nasrullah Gazetesi
literature
- Peter Baumgarten, Katja Michel: Turkey. Baedeker Travel Guide, Ostfildern 2010, pp. 479–483
Web links
- Picture gallery for Kastamonu
- Nufusune.com listing of all villages in the district ( with population figures )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu Il ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfuslari , accessed on April 13, 2020
- ↑ Tobacco Reporter, May 2005 ( Memento from November 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Central Dissemination System / Merkezi Dağıtım Sistemi (MEDAS) of the TÜIK , accessed on June 30, 2019
- ↑ Genel Nüfus Sayımları (census results 1965 to 2000) , accessed June 30, 2019
- ↑ Kültür Bakanlığı Türk Halk Kültürü Araştırmalari (Studies on the Culture of the Turkish People), 1990/1, Türk Mutfak (The Turkish Kitchen)
