Mesudiye (district), Ordu

Infobox Settlement

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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = TUR
timezone=EET
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map_caption =Location of PAGENAME within Turkey.
timezone_DST=EEST
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official_name = Mesudiye


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subdivision_type1=Region
subdivision_name1 = Black Sea
subdivision_type2=Province
subdivision_name2 = Ordu| population_total = 28551|population_footnotes=
population_as_of =| 2003
population_footnotes =
population_density_km2 = 24|area_total_km2 = 1180|elevation_m = 1308|latd = 40
latm = 28
latNS = N
longd = 37
longm = 46
longEW = E
postal_code_type=Postal code
postal_code = 52
area_code = 0452
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website = http://mesudiye.bel.tr/

Mesudiye is a town and district of Ordu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

Mesudiye is a large area of hilly countryside, villages and pasture far inland from the Black Sea coast, south-west of the city of Ordu, in the direction of Sivas. This is a low-income district that since the 1950s has seen successive generations migrate away to jobs in Istanbul and elsewhere. Today Mesudiye itself is a small town of 5,600 people and the whole district is sparsely populated, although busier in summer with returning Mesudiye families on vacation. Efforts are being made by the state to boost the local economy including the opening of a college of a higher education college.

History

Mesudiye has been inhabited since the Iron Age era and has numerous remains from the time of the Hittites and there are a number of rock tombs from early antiquity in the area. When it was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Mehmed II in 1455 the area was a collection of mountain villages centred on the slightly larger village and market place known then as "Milas". This was renamed "Hamidiye" in 1876 and then Mesudiye in 1908.

External links

* [http://www.mesudiye.gov.tr/ District governor's official website]
* [http://www.mesudiye.bel.tr/ District municipality's official website]
* [http://www.mesvak.org.tr/ local info website, includes a photo album]