Gumushane

Gumushane or Gyumushkhana is a city and the capital locale of Gumushane Province operating at a profit Sea area of Turkey. The city lies along the Harsit River, at a height of 5,000 feet or 1,500 m, around 40 miles or 65 km southwest of Trabzon. As indicated by the 2010 statistics, populace of Gumushane urban focus is 28,620. The locale covers a zone of 1,789 km² or 691 sq mi, and the town lies at a rise of 1,227 m or 4,026 ft. It is recommended that the old Thia was found 4 miles west of present day Gumushane, in current Beskilise. In Byzantine period, there was a town named Tzanicha or Tzantzakon, perhaps found 2 miles toward the west of Gumushane.

Around 840 AD, the region was incorporated into the new Roman Byzantine territory of Chaldia. It was later controlled by the Byzantine Empire of Trebizond. Amid Ottoman years, the sanjak of Gumushane fell under the organization progressively Rum Province, Erzurum Province and Trabzon Province, and was separated into four kazas: Gumushane, Torul capital city Ardassa, Siran Cheriana, and Kelkit Keltik. The sanjak in which Gumushane was arranged at some stage involved 37 mines of argentiferous lead and six copper mines. There is no proof that these mines were being used amid Byzantine occasions.