Korgan

Korgan is a town and district of Ordu Province inside the Black Sea vicinity of Turkey. According to the 2000 census, the population of the district is 41,628 of which 15,587 live within the city of Korgan. The district covers a place of 233 km2, and the city lies at an elevation of 673 m. The district of Korgan has been a supply of iron ore for the reason that reign of Mithridates, King of Pontus, or even before that the location was occupied by using Persians within the reign of Darius I inside the 6th century BC, as part of the Satrapy of Pontus and Cappadocia.

The Persian presence changed into erased with the aid of the armies of Alexander the Great in 331BC, and the location finally became part of the Kingdom of Pontus after which the Roman Empire. This era resulted in 1083 when Korgan turned into conquered with the aid of the Turkish armies of Danishmend Gazi. Subsequently a number of Turkish tribes ruled here till 1398 whilst Bayezid I added the area, then known as Kesdere after a tributary of the River Bolaman, into the Ottoman Empire. You can come here and explore this place.