Dereli

Dereli

Dereli is a district of Giresun province. In the south of Giresun province, at the 32nd km of Şebinkarahisar road. It is located on the Aksu Valley. Dereli became a township in 1926 and a district on April 1, 1958. Previously, there was a village called Dölçukuru in the same place, where there were a few houses and shops of Turkish and Greek tradesmen. In the Prime Ministry State Archive, it is seen that Dölçukuru Village was registered as the fief of a Turkmen lord named YarAli Bey in the 1500s and paid a tax of 400 has coins. It is necessary to examine and evaluate the history of Dereli within the history of Giresun. Giresun was conquered in 1397 by Emiroğlu Süleyman Bey, the grandson of the Turkmen lord BayramŞah, and turned into a Turkish homeland. After this date, it is seen that a dense Turkish population began to settle in Giresun and its surroundings. However, it is written in various sources that there were Turks around Dereli much earlier than Giresun Center, and that they were dominated by two Turkmen lords named Kuşlu Han and Zırhlı Han. They came to Dereli from two branches (Kuşluhan and Zırhlıhan). Oghuz Turkmen tribes coming from Central Asian Khorasan (see Khorasan Saints) started to settle in Şebinkarahisar and south of Dereli along the Kelkit valley. The other branch settled in the Harşit Valley, and some of them came and settled around the district. After Istanbul fell into the hands of the Crusaders, the Oghuz tribes called Çepni around Sinop moved eastwards and settled in Giresun surroundings and Dereli district. Turkmens who came to Dereli and its surroundings settled in the region during the Seljuk period. In 1398, Yıldırım Beyazıt captured Samsun, the center of the Canik Principality, during his campaign to connect the region to the Ottomans. Following this incident, the Turks living in Dereli and its surroundings joined the Ottomans. After the Battle of Ankara, Timur returned the region to Turkmen Hacı Emiroğlu Süleyman Bey. During these periods, there were lands around Dereli dedicated to individuals by the Akkoyunlu Turkmen Ruler. Dereli and its surroundings have been Turkish territory since the Seljuks. It has not been occupied by any enemy. In Prof. Dr. Faruk Sümer's work titled Oğuzlar/Turkmens, it is stated that a part of Giresun and Trabzon, including Dereli, was shown as a separate region as Vilayeti Çepni in the 1515 census books, and that the names of the villages in these places were all Turkish and that the Turkmens living there were Hacı Bektaşi. He writes that Veli had disciples. Dereli and its surroundings, as a village of Giresun district, were connected to Trabzon until the Tanzimat period. After the Tanzimat, Karahisar was transferred to Şarki (Şebinkarahisar) Sanjak, and then again to Trabzon according to the yearbooks. After Georgia was occupied by the Russians, Muslim Georgians immigrated and settled in some villages in the district in 1892. During the Republic period, in 1926, Dereli was made a township within Giresun. Dereli district was established on April 1, 1958 with law no. 7033.