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Ordu
Ordu
	— Town —
	; The city emblem
	; The city emblem
	Location of Ordu within Turkey.
	Coordinates: 40°59′N 37°53′E / 40.983°N 37.883°E
Country	Turkey
Region	Black Sea
Province	Ordu
Elevation	5 m (16 ft)
	Population (2008)
- Total	136.000
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	52x xx
Area code(s)	0452
Licence plate	52

For the town in Afghanistan, see Ordu, Afghanistan.

Not to be confused with Urdu language.

Ordu is a port on the Black Sea coast of Turkey and the capital city of Ordu Province.

[edit] Etymology

"Ordu" means 'army' in the Turkish language (and the word has come down in modern English as the word horde). It comes from the same root Turkic word as 'Urdu' (originally Zaban-e-Urdu-e-Mualla meaning "language of the Exalted Army"), the national language of modern-day Pakistan. The name may have been given because in the 15th century the city was a headquarters of the Ottoman Empire army [1].

[edit] History

Artefacts dating back to 15,000 BC have been found in the area^{[citation needed]}, but the city of Ordu was founded in the 8th century BC as Cotyora, one of a string of colonies along the Black Sea coast established by the Ancient Greek Aegean city of Miletos.

Until 1800 Ordu was a small port mainly populated by Pontic Greeks. The population then grew rapidly during the century due mainly to laws passed by the Ottoman Sultan to settle nomadic Turkish tribes in the area. After the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), the population grew with the addition of Turks fleeing the Russian controlled Caucasus and Georgia. The ethnic Greeks left the city in 1924 in the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Today the population consists of ethnic Turks, Caucasians, a few Muslim Armenians (Hamshenis) and a very small community of the descendants of Greeks.

[edit] Ordu today

Today the city is the centre of a large hazelnut processing industry, including Sagra,^[1] one of the largest Turkish hazelnut processors and exporters, and Fiskobirlik,^[2] the largest hazelnut co-op in the world. The Sagra factory shop, selling many varieties of chocolate-covered hazelnut, is one of the town's attractions.

The local music is typical of the Black Sea region; instruments include the kemençe. The cuisine is mainly based on local vegetables and typical Turkish dishes such as pide and kebab but includes the well-known 'burnt ice-cream' which comes in two flavours, plain or caramel.

[edit] Well-known residents

the Ordu Municipality Black Sea Theatre Group, one of the first Turkish theatres outside the major cities, founded by Muhsin Ertuğrul in 1964.

[edit] Places of interest

The surrounding countryside, including the high pastures in the mountains, and the Black Sea coast have great natural beauty. Popular sites include:

Boztepe - the hill above the town, the local viewpoint.
Cape Jason - Jason and the Argonauts (Golden fleece).

[edit] Religious

Historical Christian sites in Ordu include:

the restored Armenian church on Boztepe.^[3]
The ruins of Bolaman Castle.^[4]
Cape Jason - Jason Greek Orthodox Church

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

(Turkish) Travel Ordu and Northern Anatolia, Ordu Trade, OrduTicaret
Pictures of the city
(Turkish) local information website
(Turkish) and another one
(Turkish) fan site of Orduspor
Kotiora (Ordu)
(Turkish) Ordu tanitim Sitesi Ordu

[edit] Notes

^ http://www.sagra.com/sagra/tr
^ fiskobirlik Genel Müdürlüğü
^ "Ordu". PBase. http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/35752811. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
^ Ordu

[0] ttp://www.sagra.com/sagra/tr

[1] skobirlik Genel Müdürlüğü

[2] "Ordu". PBase. http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/35752811. Retrieved 2007-02-21.

[3] Ordu

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