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KASTAMUNI, or KASTAMBUL

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 694 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KASTAMUNI, or KASTAMBUL . (I) A vilayet of See also:Asia See also:Minor which includes See also:Paphlagonia and parts of See also:Pontus and See also:Galatia. It is divided into four sanjaks—Kastamuni, Boli, See also:Changra and See also:Sinope—is See also:rich in See also:mineral See also:wealth, and has many mineral springs and extensive forests, the See also:timber being used for See also:charcoal and See also:building and the bark for tanning. The products are chiefly cereals, fruits, See also:opium, See also:cotton, See also:tobacco, See also:wool, See also:ordinary See also:goat-See also:hair and See also:mohair, in which there is a large See also:trade. There are See also:coal-mines at and near Eregli (anc. Heracleia) which yield See also:steam coal nearly as See also:good in quality as the See also:English, but they are badly worked. Its See also:population comprises about 993,000 Moslems and 27,000 Christians. (2) The See also:capital of the vilayet, the See also:ancient Castamon, See also:altitude 2500 ft., situated in the narrow valley of the Geuk Irmak (Amnias), and connected by a See also:carriage road, 54 m., with its See also:port See also:Ineboli on the See also:Black See also:Sea. The See also:town is noted for its See also:copper utensils, but the famous copper mines about 36 m. N., worked from ancient times to the 19th See also:century, are now abandoned. There are over 30 mosques in the town, a See also:dervish monastery, and numerous theological colleges (medresses) , and the Moslem inhabitants have a reputation for bigotry. The See also:climate though subject to extremes of See also:heat and See also:cold is healthy; in See also:winter the roads are often closed by See also:snow.

The population of r6,000 includes about 2500 Christians. Castamon became an important See also:

city in later See also:Byzantine times. It See also:lay on the See also:northern See also:trunk-road to the See also:Euphrates and was built See also:round a strong fortress whose ruins See also:crown the rocky See also:hill See also:west of the town. It was taken by the Danishmand Amirs of See also:Sivas See also:early in the 12th century, and passed to the See also:Turks in 1393. (J. G. C.

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