Kasaba

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This article is on the township in Kastamonu Province in northern Turkey. For the city in Manisa Province, western Turkey, which was homonymous till the mid -20th century, and is still called under the same name locally, see Turgutlu.

Kasaba is a small town 17 kilometres from Kastamonu, Turkey. Its population in 1905 was about 23,000. The town does not seem to occupy any ancient site of importance but there is a famous 14th century mosque built by the Candaroğlu dynasty, ruler of the Anatolian Turkish Beylik of the same name.

Kasaba gave its name to the fruit casaba.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.