Gerede
| Gerede | |
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 Gerede
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| Coordinates: 40°48′02″N 32°11′55″E / 40.80056°N 32.19861°ECoordinates: 40°48′02″N 32°11′55″E / 40.80056°N 32.19861°E | |
| Country |
 Turkey
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| Province | Bolu |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ömer Baygın (AKP) |
| • Kaymakam | Mustafa Masatlı |
| Area | |
| • District | 1,260.44 km2 (486.66 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,300 m (4,300 ft) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Urban | 24,261 |
| • District | 34,646 |
| • District density | 27/km2 (71/sq mi) |
| Climate | Csb |
| Website | www |
Gerede is a town and a district of Bolu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is located on the highway from Istanbul to Ankara (approximately 150 km (93.21 mi) from Ankara, where the road to the Black Sea coast brances off). It covers an area of 1,255 km2 (484.56 sq mi), and the population (2000) is 41,391 of which 25,200 live in the town of Gerede. Elevation is about 1,450 m. The mayor is Ömer Baygın (AKP).
Gerede is a large area of hill country surrounded by pine-covered mountains, on a passage from central Anatolia to the Black Sea coast. The climate is notoriously cold and wet, enough to make it a centre for cross-country skiing, and traffic on the highway often has to negotiate fog, rain and ice around Gerede.
In Roman times, the town was called Cratia (Κρατεία) and was part of the Roman province of Honorias, whose capital was Claudiopolis in Honoriade.
Cratia was a metropolitan see, also called Flaviopolis. The names of some its bishops are known because of their participation in ecumenical councils: Epiphanius at the Council of Ephesus (431), Genethlius represented by the priest Eulogius at the Council of Chalcedon (451), Diogenes at the Second Council of Constantinople (553), Georgius at the Third Council of Constantinople (680–681), Constantinus or Constans at the Second Council of Nicea (787), Basilius at the Council of Constantinople (869), as well as at the Council of Constantinople (879). In addition, Philetus was one of the Eastern Arian bishops who withdrew from the Council of Sardica in about 344 and set up a rival council at Philippopolis. Paulus stood firm against the Empress Aelia Eudoxia in her persecution of John Chrysostom in 403. Plato was a member of a synod that met in 518. Abramius took part in the synod called in 536 by Patriarch Menas of Constantinople. No longer a residential bishopric, Cratia is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.
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