Azdavay

Azdavay, likewise Carsamba, is a town and area of the Kastamonu Province operating at a profit Sea district of Turkey. It is situated around 74 km away toward the northwest of the region focus Kastamonu. It is limited by Cide toward the north, Daday toward the south, Pinarbasi toward the west, Kure toward the east and Inebolu toward the upper east. Archeological discoveries imply that history of Azdavay comes to back to the Paphlagonians in eighth century BC. The locale was overwhelmed by the Hittites, Lydians, Persians, Hellenes, Pontus, Bithynians, Romans and the Byzantines related to the general verifiable timetable of the Kastamonu area.

Amid the rule of the Jandarids, it was one of the 36 locale subject to the Kastamonu Sanjak. With the victory of the area by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II in 1460, Azdavay was added to the Ottoman Empire. In 1868, when the neighboring Daday was made an area of Kastamonu, Azdavay was joined to Daday as a town. After the decree of the Turkish republic, Azdavay was made a locale in 1946, in spite of the fact that by the severance of the towns Agli and Pinarbasi in 1988, its populace and land territory to a great extent diminished.