Edens of Turkey

Ordu (Κοτύωρα Greek, German transcription: Kotyora; French also Ordou) is the capital of the Turkish province of Ordu. The picturesque city is in a small bay on the eastern Black Sea coast and embedded counts more than 130,000 inhabitants.

Ordu is in the west of the 550 meter high, with thick green forests, mountain Boztepe overlooked. The landscape around Ordu is primarily for their hazelnut gardens and forests. The hazelnut production is the main economic asset of the city and its citizens. Ordu also owns the longest tunnel Turkey, the Nefise-Akcelik with 4000 meters in length. A university is also located in the city (2006 founded). The core of the city is located on a long, rocky beach, where the highway along the Black Sea coast in the direction of the next largest cities in the West Samsun and Trabzon expands to the east. Ordu also has a small port, in which large ships can make stopover.

Among the citizens of this city is affectionately Küçük Paris “(” Little Paris “), as a tight braid road through the city and through striking, in part slender building constructions belong to the city.

Etymology “Ordu” means “army” in the Turkish language.
The name could be the city during the 15th Century has been given, because of their importance as a base Ottoman. Another alternative is that the name was derived from the Greek Kotyora.
“Ordu” was also the name of the tent in the Turkish and Mongol tribes. The modern term (English and German:) “Horde” (itinerant gang or gang) is borrowed from horda polish, again from Turkish ordu, “the entourage, the army [stock]”, this from urdu Tatar, “the camp,” urmak compare, “beat”.

Chronology
The ancient Kotyora was the place from which Xenophon Greeks (march of thousands) 45 days and then stopped for aufbrachen to Asia. According to legend, the Argonauts landed here to add to the Golden Fleece.
While artifacts were found, up to the year 1500 BC date, but the city Ordu was only in the eighth century before Christ as Kotyora by immigrants from the city of Sinope. Ordu was thus part of the chain of Greek colonies along the Black Sea coast from the ancient Aegean city of Miletus.

Until 1800 Ordu was a small port, mainly from the Pontic Greeks was inhabited. The population grew rapidly during this century, due to the laws of the Ottoman Turkish sultan more nomadic clans in the region.
After the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) the population grew again because many Turks now from the Russian-controlled regions of the Caucasus and Georgia to the Turkish Black Sea coast fled.

Historically

Hittite history
785 BC by Greek settlements from Sinope
1095-1175 Danischmenden Dynasty
1883 fire in the city
19th Century momentarily under Soviet occupation
1922-1923 expulsion of the Pontic Greeks