Mudurnu

Mudurnu
Mudurnu
Coordinates: 40°28′N 31°13′E
Country	Turkey
Province	Bolu
Area
• Destrict	1350.85 km2 (521.57 sq mi)
Population  (2012)
• Urban	5,261
• District	20536
• District density	15/km2 (39/sq mi)
Climate	Csb

Mudurnu is a small toun and a destrict of Bolu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 52 km sooth-wast of the ceety of Bolu. It covers an aurie of 1,349 km², and the population (2011) is 20,528 of which 4,936 live in the toun of Mudurnu. As o 2010, the mayor wis Mehmet İnegöl (CHP).

Histerie

The toun haes a long histerie and the name Mudurnu comes frae the Byzantine princess Modrene (Μωδρηνή in Byzantine Greek), and the ruins of the Byzantine castle can still be seen abuin the toun. In the 8th century AD, the forces of the Byzantine uisurper Artabasdos, commandit by his son Niketas, were defeatit at or near this location by the airmy of the legitimate emperor Constantine V, before being defeatit again at Chrysopolis, the same location where Constantine the Great defeatit his Eastren rival Licinius.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Mudurnu wis pairt of the Kastamonu Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

This is an attractive destrict of forest and moontain. Mudurnu itsel is a histerical toun with a nummer of well-preserved Ottoman Empire period hooses. A portion of the centre of toun haes been declared an Historic Preservation District ("Kentsel Sit Alanı").

In 1920, during the Naitionalists' push tae gain control ower the kintra, İbrahim Çolak with the Kuva-yi Milliye besiegit forces loyal tae the Porte for three days, May 13 tae 15, before taking the toun.