Çaydeğirmeni is a town (''
belde
Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish language, Turkish.
All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the Villages of Turkey, villages are usually too ...
'') in the
Devrek District,
Zonguldak Province
Zonguldak Province () is a province along the western Black Sea coast region of Turkey. Its area is 3,342 km2, and its population is 588,510 (2022). Its adjacent provinces are Düzce to the southwest, Bolu to the south, Karabük to the sou ...
, Turkey. Its population is 7,034 (2022).
It is situated in the valley of Alpaslan creek, a tributary of
Yenice River. It is north east of Devrek. The area around Çaydeğirmeni was inhabited from the 4th century BC (late
Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...
). The settlement was a stop on an ancient caravan route. The present town was founded in 1993 after a merger of two villages named Kemerler and Kaypaklar.
Mayor’s page
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References
Town municipalities in Turkey
Populated places in Devrek District
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