Şebinkarahisar District
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Şebinkarahisar Şebinkarahisar İlçesi |
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 Şebinkarahisar
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| Coordinates: 40°17′N 038°25′E / 40.283°N 38.417°ECoordinates: 40°17′N 038°25′E / 40.283°N 38.417°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Giresun |
| Seat | Şebinkarahisar |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Şahin Yılancı (AKP) |
| Area | |
| • District | 1,381.80 km2 (533.52 sq mi) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Urban | 12,174 |
| • District | 22,521 |
| • District density | 16/km2 (42/sq mi) |
| Postal code | 28400 |
| Website | http://www.sebinkarahisar.gov.tr/ |
Şebinkarahisar District is a district of Giresun Province in northeastern Turkey. It is inland from the Black Sea in the Giresun Mountains (Paryadres Mountains). The administrative seat is the town of Şebinkarahisar. Its area is 1,318 square kilometres (509 sq mi).
Archaeological research shows that the area was first settled about 5500 BC, at the end of the Neolithic, by the Hittites and subsequently by Phrygians, Cimmerians, Lydians, and Persians.
The area was a part of the Persian Empire, that after Alexander, became part of the Kingdom of Pontus. After the Romans took the area, it was part of the province of Bithynia et Pontus, and then after the reforms of Diocletian, it was part of the province of Lesser Armenia. Its capital was the town of Colonia (Κολώνεια, now Şebinkarahisar), above the headwaters of the Lykos River now Kelkit River). In the 7th century it was part of the Byzantine province of Armeniac Theme, and later of Chaldia, before finally becoming the seat of its own separate theme by 863. The area was attacked by Arab raiders in 778 and in 940, but remained in Byzantine hands until about 1071.
The area was conquered by the Seljuk Turks soon after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. There was a short-lived Byzantine recovery about 1106, but the area soon returned to Turkish control. Through the following centuries, the fortress at Kolonia occupied a strategic position on the frontier between the Turkish-controlled interior and the Byzantine Empire of Trebizond in the Pontus. The Danishmends held the area until the 1170s, when it passed into the hands of the Saltukids of Erzurum. In 1202 the Mengujekids, vassals of the Seljuks of Rum, took over. Following the Mongol invasion of the mid-13th century, the area was part of the lands of the Eretnids, who minted coins in the town of Koloneia (Koğoniya). A succession of petty Turkmen warlords controlled the area until Uzun Hasan of the Ak Koyunlu took over in 1459, perhaps under the impression that it was part of the dowry of his new Greek wife, the daughter of John IV of Trebizond.
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