Ordu

Ordu is a port town on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, traditionally additionally known as Cotyora or Kotyora, and the capital of Ordu Province with a populace of 213,582 in the city center. The metropolis is the arena's biggest hazelnut manufacturer. While hazelnut is the principle supply of the financial system, the city has developed small-sized industries and a rapidly growing tourism area in latest years. In the 8th century BC, Cotyora became founded by the Miletians as one in every of a string of colonies along the Black Sea coast.

Xenophon's Anabasis relates that the 10,000 rested there for 45 days before embarking for home. Strabo additionally mentions it. Under Pharnaces I of Pontus, Cotyora changed into united in a synoikismos with Cerasus. Arrian, inside the Periplus of the Euxine Sea, describes it as a village "and not a massive one." The location came below the control of the Danishmends, then the Seljuk Turks in 1214 and 1228, and the Haciemirogullari Beylik in 1346. Afterwards, it handed to the kingdom of the Ottomans in 1461 at the side of the Empire of Trabzon.

The modern-day town was founded by using the Ottomans as Bayramli near Eskipazar as a military outpost 5 km west of Ordu. In 1869, the town's call changed into modified to Ordu and it become united with the districts of Bolaman, Persembe, Ulubey, Hansamana, and Aybasti. At the flip of the 20 th century, the town was greater than half of Christian, and was acknowledged for its Greek colleges.