Bor

Bor is a metropolis and district of Nigde Province within the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, 14 km north of the town of Nigde, on a excessive simple. The district's populace is 59,919 of which 38,320 live within the town of Bor. The region is situated just north of the Taurus Mountains, no longer some distance from the Cilician Gates, the mountain skip main to Cilicia and Syria, and has lengthy been an area of commercial and army importance.

The plain has been settled for the reason that time of the Hittites, and in the end managed with the aid of Assyrians, Phrygians, Persians and Ancient Macedonians. The Romans constructed the historical town of Tyana the maximum southern-maximum centre of Cappadocia. During the Byzantine duration the city turned into the jap Mediterranean vicinity’s maximum important Christian centre, as indicated also by using its former Turkish name of Kilisehisar. Turks started out to settle inside the place inside the wake of the Battle of Manzikert after 1071.

In the direction of time the fortifications of historic Tyana vanished the ious cities of Bor, Kemerhisar and Bahceli. Today the economic system of Bor depends on grazing animals, plus some carpet weaving and leather-making. The geographical region is just too dry for planting plants, although there are vineyards and orchards in Kemerhisar. This is a particularly terrible district and plenty of human beings have migrated to Europe or the bigger towns of Turkey looking for jobs.