Korgan
Sign in to saveKorgan is a municipality and district of Ordu Province, Turkey. Its area is 254 km2, and its population is 27,349 (2022). The town lies at an elevation of .
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Korgan
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Ana Cadde - panoramio.jpg
- Turkey place.image_map
- Districts of Ordu.png
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Korgan District in Ordu Province
- Turkey place.province
- Ordu
- Turkey place.leader_party
- İYİ
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Sait Korgan
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 254
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 764
- Turkey place.population_total
- 27349
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 52700
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0452
- Turkey place.blank1_name
- Climate
- Turkey place.blank1_info
- Csb
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Korgan
- Population
- 30545
- Elevation
- 673
- Official website
- www.kogan.bel.tr
- Image
- Korgan - panoramio.jpg
- Licence plate code
- 52
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- postal code
- 52700
- Commons category
- Korgan
- urban population
- 27856
- rural population
- 21989
- native label
- Korgan
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Korgan is a municipality and district of Ordu Province, Turkey. Its area is 254 km2, and its population is 27,349 (2022). The town lies at an elevation of .
==History== The district of Korgan has been a source of iron ore since the reign of Mithridates, King of Pontus, and even before that the area was occupied by Persians in the reign of Darius I in the 6th century BC, as part of the Satrapy of Pontus and Cappadocia. The Persian presence was erased by the armies of Alexander the Great in 331BC, and the area eventually became part of the Kingdom of Pontus and then the Roman Empire. This era ended in 1083 when Korgan was conquered by the Turkish armies of Danishmend Gazi. Subsequently a number of Turkish tribes ruled here until 1398 when Bayezid I brought the area, then known as Keşdere after a tributary of the River Bolaman, into the Ottoman Empire.
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