Osmancık
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Osmancık is a district of Çorum Province in central Turkey, located at 59 km north of the city of Çorum.
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[edit] Geography
Located on an important crossing of the River Kızılırmak on the ancient Silk Road to the orient, Osmancık has long had a strategic value, and is still today a popular stopping-place on the road from Istanbul to the Black Sea city of Samsun and further east.
Today Osmancık is known for its rice production, being especially suitable for a new strain of rice developed especially for the region by the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and named "Osmancık-97".
The North Anatolian geological fault line runs right through the valley, and Osmancık is very vulnerable to earthquakes.
[edit] History
The area was settled by the Kayı clan of the Oghuz Turks as they migrated westwards into Anatolia from their heartland of Central Asia.
[edit] Notable natives
- Osmancıklı İmamzade Halil Paşa - 15th century Ottoman statesman, in the court of Mehmed I.
- Osmancıklı (Amasyalı) Koca Mehmed Nizamüddin Paşa - 15th century Ottoman statesman.
- Pakçemüezzin Baltacı Mehmed Paşa - 18th century Ottoman statesman, rumoured to have been a lover of Catherine I of Russia.
[edit] Places of interest
- In the village of Ardıç to the west of Osmancık there is a road cut by the Ancient Romans through a rock named Çalınkaya.
- Koyunbaba bridge over the Kızılırmak, built in 1489.
- The Seljuk Turk castle of Kandiber, in the town centre.
- The Ottoman period tomb of Sufi mystic Koyunbaba.
- The Trojan war hero Achilles was said to have been finally buried on the hill of Adatepe.
 Osmancık in Çorum Province (in the Black Sea region) of Turkey |
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| Urban districts | Çorum |    |
| Rural districts | Alaca - Bayat - Boğazkale - Dodurga - İskilip - Kargı - Laçin - Mecitözü - Oğuzlar - Ortaköy - Osmancık - Sungurlu - Uğurludağ | |
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| Aegean | ||
| Black Sea | ||
| Central Anatolia | ||
| East Anatolia | ||
| Marmara | ||
| Mediterranean Sea | ||
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