Keskin

Keskin
District
Location of Keskin within Turkey.
Keskin Location of Keskin within Turkey.
Coordinates: 39°40′N 33°36′E / 39.667°N 33.600°E / 39.667; 33.600
Country	Turkey
Province	Kırıkkale
Government
• Mayor	Bayram Sakallı (AKP)
Area
• District	1,129.15 km² (435.97 sq mi)
Elevation	1,123 m (3,684 ft)
Population (2012)
• Urban	9,876
• District	18,886
• District density	17/km² (43/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	71xxx
Area code(s)	0318
Licence plate	71
Climate	Csb
Website	www.keskin.gov.tr

Keskin is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. At the 2000 Turkish census, the population of the district was 59,150, of whom 34,827 lived in the town of Keskin.

In the times of the Roman and Byzantine, the city was called Ciscissus (sometimes shortened to Cissus) and belonged to the Roman province of Cappadocia Prima. It became a Christian bishopric, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Caesarea in Cappadocia, the capital of the province. The names of two of its bishops are known from extant contemporary documents: Plato was at the Trullan Council of 692, and Soterichus at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787. No longer a residential bishopric, Ciscissus is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.