Kurucaşile

Kurucaşile

It is 52 km away from Bartın city center. It is located on the Black Sea coast. The region was first inhabited by the Pala and Kashka people who lived during the Hittite period, and later by the Phoenicians, Carians and Achaeans. In 306 BC, the Kromna civilization was located in Tekkeönü, approximately 8 km away from Kurucaşile district center. Kromna is an ancient city founded in the Paphlagonia region of Anatolia, on the shores of the Black Sea. In Luwian and Hittite languages, the word "Kromna" was derived by taking the root "kro", which is a variation of the word "kar" meaning "head", and the suffix "umna" meaning human, people. It can be interpreted as "people of the edge". The Paphlagonia region, where the city of Kromna is located, is bordered by the Filyos (Billaios) Stream in the west, the Halys (Red River) River in the east, Phrygia (Galatia) country in the south, and Pontus Eukseinos (Black Sea) in the north. It roughly includes today's Sinop, Kastamonu, Bartın, Zonguldak and Çankırı provinces. The main cities founded on the Paphlagonia coast, such as Kromna, are: Teion or Teios (Hisarönü), Sesamos or Amastris (Amasra), Erithnoi (Çakraz), Kytoros (Gideros), Aigialos (Aydos), Ionopolis (İnebolu), Sinope (Sinop). It is thought that the first people of the region were the Pala and Kaşka people, who lived during the Hittite period and were descendants of Paflagon. After this, Phoenicians, Kayras and Achaeans are seen in the region. The purpose of these communities was to operate the copper, iron and gold mines on the coasts of Anatolia and the Caucasus, to hunt tuna, to hunt for land, and to trade wheat and slaves. It is stated in various sources that the district, which has a history of 3,000 years, was a site called Kromna, founded by Phoenicians, Miletus and Megara sailors in the Antiquity. The first Turkish commander seen in the region after Roman, Byzantine and Genoese rule was Kara Tigin under the command of Kutalmışoğlu Süleyman Bey. Yıldırım Beyazıt took this region from Candaroğulları in 1395 and brought it under Ottoman rule. Kurucaşile, which remained as a township within the Bartın district from the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey until 1957, became a district and was connected to the province of Zonguldak with the law numbered 7033 dated 19 June 1957, published in the Official Gazette numbered 9644 dated 27 June 1957. It became a district of Bartın after Bartın was made a province in 1991.