Akçakoca

Akçakoca

Akçakoca is a district of Düzce province in the Western Black Sea Region. Akçakoca has a 35 km long beach on the Black Sea coastline. It started to become a tourist destination, especially after 1950. This is especially due to the fact that it is 3 hours away from big cities such as Ankara and Istanbul. After Ankara and Istanbul, it attracts a lot of tourists from Zonguldak and Bursa. Apart from its sea and beach, Akçakoca also attracts tourists with its untouched beauty in terms of vegetation. Çınar Street, which is visited by visitors at night and where city people go out and wander around at night, takes its name from the trees along the street. The vegetation consisting of beech, chestnut, linden, plane tree and oak trees attracts holidaymakers. Hazelnut production plays a big role in people's income. Akçakoca-Kocaali state road passing through Pasalar village. Melen Stream, which forms the Düzce-Sakarya provincial border, Melenağzı village and fishing boats. Although there is no definitive information and documents about the history of Akçakoca and its surroundings, it is estimated that some of the items obtained as a result of excavations in the region belong to the Thracian Tribes who passed to Anatolia via Thrace in 1220 BC. It was known as an important port and trade center under the name "Diapolis" during the Roman rule. When the Christian villages established around the Genoese castle were plundered and plundered by the Seljuk tribes who came here later in the years 1185-1200, the Christian people there complained to the emperor, and the emperor then placed the musketeer tribes of Turks such as Pecheneg, Uz and Kuman in Dobruja, Romania, to these places as a buffer against the Turkmens. brings it and places it. The Ottomans and Seljuks later merged. These Turks in Dobruja, Romania, were brought from Thrace and settled in Christian villages that were depopulated. Some of these Turkish immigrants settled in the villages of Altunçay, Subaşı and Dereköy as they went to the plateaus. In 1204, the armies of the 4th Crusade came to Istanbul. They occupied Istanbul instead of Jerusalem and divided the lands of the Byzantine Empire. They founded the Latin Empire in 1204. The Latin Empire remained under the rule of the Trebizond Empire for a short period between 1204-1212. Starting from 1212, the region came under the rule of the Nicaean Empire. As a result of the Iznik Empire's capture of Istanbul in 1261, the region fell into the hands of the Byzantine Empire again until 1323. The Genoese commercially dominated the cities of Diapolis, Herakleia and Amesus, which were actually Byzantines, and repaired the damaged castles. Diapolis - now known as Akçakoca - was conquered by Konur Alp, one of the raider lords and Orhan Gazi's lala, in 1323, during the Ottoman Principality period, and was taken over by the Turks. It has remained under uninterrupted Turkish rule until today. According to some historians, Akçakoca was not conquered by the Ottomans and the majority Turkish population living in the city under the control of Byzantium joined the Ottoman Empire. The region, which was a voivodeship under the Bolu Sancak Principality until 1862 and a township named Akçaşehir until 1934, changed its name in 1934 and became Akçakoca district, taking the name of Akçakoca Bey. Since Düzce became a province in December 1999, Akçakoca district was connected to Düzce province.