Karabük

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Karabük is the capital of the Turkish province of Karabük in the Black Sea region. The city had 108 710 inhabitants in 2010. Karabük is marked by the major steel mill. The name Karabük means " black scrub ".

History

Karabük emerged at the confluence of the streams Soğanlı and Araç which there share the river Filyos ( Turkish Filyos Çayı, also Yenice Irmağı ) form. Karabük is not a historical city. The place was originally a Mahalle the village Öğlebeli, which consisted in 1900 of a few houses surrounded by small station on the line between Zonguldak on the Black Sea and Ankara in the south. The town was founded in 1939 after the establishment of the first steel plant in Turkey and took a rapid development. The structure of the work carried out in 1937. Two years later the production was recorded. For factory workers have simple homes were built in the valley of Araç. This formed the starting point for the Dereevler and Yüzevler district. For engineers and officials Yenişehir the class was created. Karabük spread rapidly and had already in 1940 6,825 inhabitants. By 1955, the number doubled to 15,624.

In 1941 Karabük was a Bucak of Safranbolu. 1953 Karabük was given the status as the capital of a district of Zonguldak Province. The status of a provincial capital received Karabük in 1995.

Cityscape

The road leads to Ankara on steel mill Kardemir past Inc., which is located about one kilometer south of the modern business center in the plane. The north of the railway line running main street is lined avenue trees. South of the central railway station both rivers together. On the other side, the city is bordered by partially wooded hills.

Attractions in the surroundings

• Safranbolu, small town 9 kilometers to the north with buildings from the Ottoman period
• Su Kemeri, Byzantine aqueduct about 16 kilometers north
• Hadrianapolis, excavations of an ancient city with mosaics and rock-cut tombs, about 35 kilometers south near Eskipazar

Sons and daughters of the town

• Fehmi Mert Günok (* 1989), football player