Dereli is a town and district of Giresun Province

Giresun Province

Giresun Province is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Trabzon to the east, Gümüşhane to the south-west, Erzincan to the south, Sivas to the south-east, and Ordu to the west. The provincial capital is Giresun....

 in the Black Sea

Black Sea Region

The Black Sea Region is one of Turkey's seven census-defined geographical regions . It is bordered by the Marmara Region to the west, the Central Anatolia Region to the south, the Eastern Anatolia Region to the southeast, the Republic of Georgia to the northeast, and the Black Sea to the north.-...

 region of Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. The mayor is Kazım Zeki Şenlikoğlu (AKP

Justice and Development Party (Turkey)

The Justice and Development Party , abbreviated JDP in English and AK PARTİ or AKP in Turkish, is a centre-right political party in Turkey. The party is the largest in Turkey, with 327 members of parliament...

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Dereli is a small town of 6,043 people in attractive countryside, in the valley of the Aksu Deresi

Aksu Deresi

Aksu is one of the main water streams of Giresun Province located in eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. Its name is Turkish for "white water".-Description:...

 and Akkaya River, inland 28 from Giresun

Giresun

Giresun is the provincial capital of Giresun Province in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about west of the city of Trabzon.-Etymology:...

 on the road to Şebinkarahisar

Sebinkarahisar

Şebinkarahisar is a town and a district of Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of eastern Turkey.-Name:The 6th century Byzantine historian Procopius writes that the Roman general Pompey captured the then ancient fortress and renamed it Colonia, in Greek Koloneia...

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History

See Giresun

Giresun

Giresun is the provincial capital of Giresun Province in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about west of the city of Trabzon.-Etymology:...

for the history of this area, once occupied by the Hittites

Hittites

The Hittites were a Bronze Age people of Anatolia.They established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia c. the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height c...

, Persians, Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...

 colonists from Miletos, Macedonians

Ancient Macedonians

The Macedonians originated from inhabitants of the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula, in the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios...

, Ancient Romans, Byzantines

Byzantine Empire

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, Seljuk Turks, who settled in these valleys and arounds muslim Kızılbaş, Turkmen Turks (Chepni) and finally the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

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Places to see

• Kümbet
  Kümbet
  Kümbet is the name given to Seljuq mausoleums. Kümbet are an important part of Seljuq architecture. In Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran where the Turks set up states and ruled for centuries, there are a number of examples of such mausoleums...
  
  
• Salon Çayırı
• Aymaç
  Aymaç
  Aymaç is a recreation area in Dereli district of Giresun Province located in eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey.It is a location between Kümbet and Uzundere villages of Dereli. From Giresun it is reached via an asphalt road starting in the east end of city centrum and going to Dereli and Kümbet...
  
  
• Karagöl