Şebinkarahisar

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Şebinkarahisar
Skyline of Şebinkarahisar
Location of Şebinkarahisar within Turkey.
Location of Şebinkarahisar within Turkey.
Coordinates: 40°17′N 35°26′E / 40.283, 35.433
Country Flag of Turkey Turkey
Region Black Sea
Province Giresun
Government
 - Mayor Lütfullah Akdoğan (Nationalist Movement Party)
Area
 - Total 1,394 km² (538.2 sq mi)
Elevation 1,352 m (4,436 ft)
Population (2008 TUIK)
 - Total town: 13,200
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 - Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code 28400
Area code(s) (+90) 454
Licence plate 28
Website: Şebinkarahisar Governorate

Şebinkarahisar is a town and a district of Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of eastern Turkey.

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[edit] Etymology

During the Ottoman Empire the town was known as Şarkikarahisar (or in the Arabic-style alternative form Karahisar-ı Şarki, both meaning black castle of the East. Then in 1924 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk himself requested the name change to Şebinkarahisar.

[edit] History

[edit] Antiquity

In early antiquity the area was occupied by Hittites but the village of Isola (today's Güneyören) village is the first known inhabited part of the city, during the Kingdom of Pontus). After it was conquered by the Romans the city center was moved to Nicopolis (later renamed Mavrakastoron by the Byzantines).

[edit] The Turkish Era

The first Turkish presence in the city dates back to the 6th century when Turkish tribes moved into Anatolia; they temporarily took control of the mid-east part of that region before being driven out by the Romans. The city was conquered by the Seljuk Turks in 1075, fell to Ottoman rule in 1478, and was renamed Keygune, and then Karahisar-ı Şarki, after the city's fortress.[1]

[edit] The Shabin-Karahisar Resistance

The city was the location of the Shabin-Karahisar Resistance where the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party-allied Armenians held their ground for up to a month against the Ottoman forces, in June 1915, during the Armenian Genocide.[2][3][4] After a month of fighting, the Ottoman army defeated the resistance and massacred the remaining survivors.[5][6]

[edit] The Republic of Turkey

When the republic was founded in 1923 the 10th Army was garrisoned here, bringing a boost to the local economy. Atatürk visited in 1924, on his way from seeing earthquake damage in Erzurum, and this was the occasion that he requested the name of the town be changed.

[edit] Geography

Şebinkarahisar itself is a quiet town of 13,200 (TÜİK 2008) people, 40km from the provincial city of Giresun, standing on the north side of the valley of the river Avutmuş in the Giresun Mountains.

The town is hard to reach, the road along the riverbank is windy and narrow, and services are hard to provide. The surrounding rural district is even more remote and many generations have left to jobs in cities like İstanbul and Ankara, although in summer the villages of Şebinkarahisar are busy with returning families on holiday.

The Şebin walnut' is a particular variety of walnut, grown on the valley sides [7], another local delicacies include a helva made from hazelnuts, Hoşmerim a kind of cheese pudding, small bread loaves called gilik, the corn and chick pea soup toyga çorbası, dolma made from the leaves of Curled Dock evelik, stewed nettles and most of all the mulberry syrup, pekmez.

[edit] Places of interest

  • Şebinkarahisar castle
  • Beyramşah Camii - mosque built by the Seljuk Turks, in the neighbourhood of Avutmuş.
  • Taşhanlar - Ottoman-period stone caravanserai, at the entrance to the castle
  • Fatih Camii - Ottoman mosque next to the castle

[edit] Notable natives

[edit] References

  1. ^ (Turkish) Tarihi
  2. ^ Simon Payaslian, "The Armenian Resistance at Shabin-Karahisar in 1915" 5th International conferences on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces
  3. ^ Richard G. Hovannisian, "The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics, Ethics" Published 1992 Palgrave Macmillan, p. 289, ISBN 0312048475
  4. ^ Edmund Herzig, Marina Kurkichayan, "The Armenians: Past and Present in the Making of National Identity", Published 2005 Routledge, pg. 93, ISBN 0700706399
  5. ^ Translated from the Armenian: Mihran Kurdoghlian, Badmoutioun Hayots, C. hador [Armenian History, volume III], Athens, Greece, 1996, pg. 93.
  6. ^ Richard G. Hovannisian, "The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics, Ethics" Published 1992 Palgrave Macmillan, p. 289, ISBN 0312048475
  7. ^ Þebin Cevizi.Net - Anasayfa

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