Mesudiye, Ordu

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. Mesudiye is a home to sizeable Chepni Turkmen population. also, was capital of Chepni Beylik Hacıemiroğulları.

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. According to Bryer and Winfield, the later Greek name for Mesudiye (or Hamidiye) was Meletios, Melet, or Milas (Grk: Μελέτιος, Μελέτ, or Μήλας), probably derived from the Melanthios River (Melet Irmak) which runs through it and down to Ordu.

Composition There are 71 neighbourhoods in Mesudiye District:

Abdili Akkırık Akpınar Alanköy Arıcılar Arıkmusa Armutkolu Arpaalan Aşağıgökçe Aşıklı Bahçe Balıklı Bayırköy Bayraklı Beşpınar Beyağaç Beyseki Birebir Çaltepe Çardaklı Çavdar Celalköy Çerçi Çitliksarıca Çukuralan Darıcabaşı Dayılı Derebaşı Doğançam Dursunlu Erikköy Esatlı Göçbeyi Gölbaşı Gülpınar Güneyce Güvenli Güzelce Güzle Hamzalı Herközü Ilışar Kaleköy Karabayır Karacaören Kavaklıdere Kayadibi Kayadibi Kışlacık Konacık Köşe Mahmudiye Maksutalan Merkez Musalı Müslümsarıca Pınarlı Sarıca Sarıyayla Topçam Türkköyü Üçyol Yagmurlar Yardere Yavşan Yenimahalle Yeşilce Yeşilçit Yeveli Yukarıgökçe Yuvalı

References

External links District governor's official website District municipality's official website Road map of Mesudiye and environs Various images of Mesudiye, Ordu Melet (Mesudiye)

Populated places in Ordu Province Districts of Ordu Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey