Karabük Tourist Map With Attractions Visiting Places

Although Karabük is the center, Safranbolu district has made a name for itself because of its historical houses. Besides Karabük found in the center of Turkey's first steel plant, the development of Karabük forming a broad scope of this work it has been achieved thanks to the factory. Karabük has developed rapidly with the established iron and steel factory and subsidiary industries and has created a great example of development. In addition, textile industry has developed especially in the garment sector throughout the province.

history
Karabük is named after its geographical environment. The words “Kara” and “Bük, have been the source of the name Karabük in terms of black bushes. The Turkmen communities living in these communities have taken the name of Karabük community in this way. 14 places and pass the name of the site in the form of Karabük in Turkey today, strengthens the idea that communities have migrated to other places in this land.

Karabük and its surroundings in the prehistoric period
Although there are many mounds and tumuli that will illuminate the region's unwritten cultural period in Karabük and its vicinity, the lack of any scientific archaeological excavation creates an information gap in the explanations on this subject. However, considering the archaeological surveys conducted in Ovacık and Eskipazar districts, the oldest settlement of Karabük and its vicinity is the “Yazıboy” village in Eskipazar District. The fact that a mound found here is the subject of settlement as the first Bronze Age (2500 BC) increases the importance of Eskipazar within the boundaries of the province.

Karabük and its environs in ancient times
In ancient times, Karabük was settled extensively in the Phrygian, Hellenistic Kingdoms and Roman times starting from the Hittites. The district of Karabük, which was settled during the Hittites; Is Eflani'de. It is known in the Hittite texts that the oldest name of the city is called Haluna (Wool). Kışlaköy of Ovacık was settled during the Phrygian Period. It is believed that the building block at the gate of Hesem Değirmeni is from the Phrygian period. During the Hellenistic Kingdoms, Eflani was the subject of the settlement. In order to prevent Rome from seizing the Western Black Sea Region (Paflagonia), the Bitinites of the Hellenistic Kingdoms were built in Eflani and defended the region (70 BC). The second name of Eflani is known as Y Dormitory of Phylomenes dolayı because of Phylomenes son of Nicomedes, King of Bithynia. Rome, the last State of antiquity, was one of the places that she cared about when she entered Anatolia in the 1st century BC. For this purpose, the most important cities established by Rome within the borders of the province of Karabük are among the borders of Eskipazar. These are the settlement areas called Hadrianapolis and Kimistene. In addition, the village of Karabuk, Burnuk, Ucbas Village, Bulak Village; Pürçükören Village in Ovacık and Karakoyunlulu village, which is 1 km away from Ganibeyler, are the historical witnesses with Roman ruins.

Turkish settlement before the Battle of Manzikert
Before the Battle of Malazgirt in 1071, the Turks came to Anatolia for different purposes and settled. In particular, among these Turkish masses known as Northern Turkishness, there are Oguzs as well as other Turkish tribes such as Kipchak and Pecenek. These Turkish tribes, which were under the command of Byzantium for various reasons, and the resettlement policy pursued by this state, were placed in various parts of Anatolia. Tamış, who gave his name to the village of Tamışlar in Eskipazar as a result of interpretations based on place names (Toponimi), is an Oguz Bey under Byzantine order. time has changed pure, Seljuks passed to the side. Before the Battle of Manzikert the Kipchaks became the second Turkish tribe that appeared and settled in our region. Kipchaks settled in masses between Safranbolu and Eflani. When Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror conquered Amasra in the second half of the 15th century, he sent the Genoese to Istanbul and deported the Kipchaks living in Eflani to Amasra. Today, these people who are very famous in Amasra especially in wood processing are the grandchildren of Kipchak Turks. Kipchak dialect Eflani-Bartin and Amasra for those who will do research on this aspect offers important research material.