Çorum Province

Çorum Province
Çorum Province
	Province o Turkey
	Location of Çorum Province in Turkey
Kintra	Turkey
Region	Black Sea
Govrenment
• Electoral destrict	Çorum
Area
• Tot	12,820 km2 (4,950 sq mi)
Population (2009)
• Tot	527,863
• Density	41/km2 (110/sq mi)
Area code(s)	0364
Vehicle registration	19

Çorum (Turkis: Çorum İli) is a province in the Black Sea Region o Turkey, but lyin inland an haein mair characteristics o Central Anatolie than the Black Sea coast.

Wi important archaeological steids datin back 5,000 year an a unique naitural brawnie, Çorum is attractive tae visitors.

Geografie

The province o Çorum is a mixtur o muntains an heich plateaus, some o it watered bi the Kızılırmak an Yeşilırmak rivers. The province includes hintle attractive heich meadae an muntain for walkin an excursions frae the ceety an touns.

Kızılırmak an Taybı plain, İskilip

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	Mey	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Average heich °C	4.2	6.5	11.5	17.4	21.8	25.6	28.9	29.1	25.6	19.5	12.1	6.0
Ave. law °C	-4.3	-3.8	-1.1	3.7	7.0	9.8	12.1	12.0	8.7	4.7	0.3	-2.3
soorce: www.meteor.gov.tr Archived 2008-06-17 at the Wayback Machine

History

The Lion Gate at Hattusa, Turkey. This wis ane o the twa ceety gates. The airc is teepical for Hittite airchitectur.

Excavations reveal that Çorum aurie wis inhabitit durin the Paleolithic, Neolithic period an the 4t stage o the Calcolithic Age. Remains o thir periods hae been foond at Büyük Güllüce, Eskiyapar an Kuşsaray.

In later times Çorum an its environs wur dominatit bi Hittites an in the destrict o Boğazkale is ane o the maist important Hittite steids in Anatolie, the UNESCO Warld Heritage leetit Hattusa, the caipital o the Hittite Empire frae 1700 BC tae 1200 BC. Ither important Hittite steid include the open-air temples at Yazılıkaya an Alacahöyük; ryal tombs; an the excavations o Boğazköy includin tablets provin tradin links atween the Hittites an the Auncient Egyptians.

Then came the ither ceevilizations: Phrygians, who left remains at Pazarlı, north o Çorum;

Then Cimmerians, Medes, Persies, Galaties, Romans, Byzantines, Seljuk Turks, Danishmends, Mongol Empire (Ilkhanids), Eretnids, Kadi Burhan al-Din an feenally the Ottoman Empire. As well as the Hittite airchaeologie the province contains a nummer o castles an aw, brigs an mosques frae the Seljuk an Ottoman periods.

Population

Population statistical o subprovinces
Subprovince	1831*	1849	1893	1907	1927	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2007
Çorum	10.075*		49.057	80.973	60.752	88.056	118.536	144.569	168.985	189.748	221.699
Alaca	-	-	-	-	26.787	46.444	54.315	56.657	56.724	53.403	53.193
Bayat	-	-	-	-	-	-	22.836	27.078	31.957	36.294	30.574
Boğazkale	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9.973	8.190
Dodurga	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13.550	10.439
İskilip	11.450*	43.442	43.271	52.362	53.722	66.611	55.618	67.434	72.569	52.569	45.327
Kargı	-	-	-	-	-	-	31.564	32.261	31.247	26.762	20.388
Laçin	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11.960	9.425
Mecitözü	-	-	31.928	1907	36.752	44.319	34.598	35.496	34.911	31.246	26.064
Oğuzlar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11.154	9.083
Ortaköy	-	-	-	-	-	-	9.580	11.016	12.420	13.073	11.820
Osmancık	4.349*		17.639	29.473	29.184	33.494	42.960	53.849	63.018	52.490	53.758
Sungurlu			67.607	39.793	40.405	62.429	76.382	90.006	100.000	88.327	80.840
Uğurludağ	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18.111	16.265
Tot				202.601	247.602	341.353	446.389	518.366	571.831	608.660	597.065

The census data o 1831 is anly the central ceety, villages an towns are nae included.
The boxes wi (-) sign are the times the afore the subprovince wis a subprovince.

References

↑ Turkish Statistical Institute, MS Excel document – Population of province/district centers and towns/villages and population growth rate by provinces

Freemit airtins

(in Turkis) Çorum govrenor's offeecial wabsteid
(in Turkis) Çorum municipality's offeecial wabsteid
(in Inglis) Çorum weather forecast information Archived 2011-08-24 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Turkish Statistical Institute, MS Excel document – Population of province/district centers and towns/villages and population growth rate by provinces

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