Iskilip

Iskilip is a district of Corum Province of Turkey, on the left bank of the River Kızılırmak, located at 56 km from the city of Corum, 100 miles northeast of Ankara and 60 miles southeast of Kastamonu. It covers a region of 1,187 km², and has a height of 2460 ft. The populace is around 39,124, of which 20,660 live in the town of Iskilip. The chairman is Recep Catma. Previous names included Iskila the name given to the territory in Hittite occasions, Asklepios Blocium/Bloacium, Imad, Iskelib, Iskelib and Direklibel.

Individuals have been pulled in to the saline springs of Iskilip since the most punctual occasions, and the town remains on a course through the mountains to the Black Sea drift. Along these lines, this is one of the longest-settled zones of Anatolia; copper was refined here in old occasions, when the plain was settled by the Hittite and Hatti civic establishments. Shake carvings on the slope of Yivlik are said to date to the Hittite time frame. The Hattic city was then controlled by Paphlagonian lords, was specified in the Iliad, and was visited by Herodotus. At that point came the Galatians and the lords of Pontus, however these were before long dislodged by a significantly more grounded progress.