Gümüşhane Tourist Map With Attractions Visiting Places

Gumushane, located in the eastern Black Sea region, Turkey is a province. Bayburt in the east, Giresun in the west, Trabzon in the north and Erzincan in the south.

The science of origin
Turkish: silver and Persian: خانه is formed by the combination of the words household = khane. The city was named after the silver mines nearby. The region where the city is located during the Byzantine period is known as Haldia (Chaldia). In the 1850s, with the activation of Hellenic Revivalism in the region, the city was called Argyropolis (Greek: Αργυρούπολης. Αργύρος argyros "silver" + πολης (police) city by Greek educated Greeks. Today there are cities of the same name in Greece, south of Athens and Crete.

History
Archaeological studies carried out in the region have revealed traces of human settlement in the region in 3.500 BC and agriculture in 3,000 BC. It is believed that the autochthonous people of the Black Sea Region of the Hittite region were inhabited by the Kashkas in the region called Aziz Hayasa country during the Assyrians. It was ruled by Pontus, Rome, Byzantium and Trabzon Empire after the Cimmerian and Scythian attacks that came under Urartu rule in the 9th century BC. Among these administrations, the city was dominated by the Akkoyunlu and Safavids until the Ottoman Empire in 1514, after the collapse of the Trabzon Empire. During the First World War, Armenians from the Christian peoples of the region, occupied by Russian armies from 1916 to 1918, were deported with the 1915 deportation and the Greeks were sent out of Anatolia with the exchange of 1923.

The finds recovered in archaeological research in the region show that the settlement here dates back to 3000 BC. In the middle of 2000 BC, Azzi and Hayaşalar settled here. Therefore, the region including Gümüşhane was called Azzi-Hayaşa country. The Assyrian merchants coming from Mesopotamia were interested in the region because of the mineral deposits in Gümüşhane and the region. During the Hittite Empire, the silver deposits around Gümüşhane were operated. After the collapse of the Hittite Empire, the region was dominated by the Urartians, and the Cimmerian-Scythian raids began towards the end of the 8th century BC. Later, the region was dominated by Medes, Persians and Pontos Kingdom. Romans dominated the region in the 1st century BC. Gumushane, which remained within the territory of the Byzantine Empire in 395 AD, was among the lands subject to the Byzantine-Caspian military cooperation in the 7th century AD. The city, which was founded in the Roman and Byzantine periods, was called Argyropolis (Greek argyros: “silver” and police: kent city)). The reason for the importance of the region in this period, due to its presence on trade routes and silver mines.

A part of the current population of the province is included in the population of Turkish Kayı and Çepni tribes. However, many other Oguz boy settled in the province.