Sungurlu is the largest and wealthiest district of Çorum Province

Çorum Province

Çorum Province is a province in the Black Sea Region of Turkey, but lying inland and having more characteristics of Central Anatolia than the Black Sea coast....

 in the Black Sea 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...

, located at 72 km south-west of the city of Çorum

Çorum

Çorum is a landlocked northern Anatolian city that is the capital of the Çorum Province of Turkey. Çorum is located inland in the central Black Sea Region of Turkey, and is approximately from Ankara and from Istanbul...

. Population is about 59,283 of which 34,159 live in the town of Sungurlu. The mayor is Selaheddin Uzunkaya (AKP

Justice and Development Party (Turkey)

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).

Sungurlu is on the main road from the Turkish capital Ankara

Ankara

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 to the Black Sea

Black Sea

The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...

 city of Samsun

Samsun

Samsun is a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Samsun Province and a major Black Sea port.-Name:...

, and is a popular stop for soup or snacks, including Çorum's famous roasted chick peas (leblebi

Leblebi

Leblebi is a kind of snack made from roasted chickpeas, very common and popular in Turkey. It is sometimes roasted with salt, hot spices or dried cloves. There is also a candy coated variety...

), when travelling that route by bus.

Sungurlu has been settled by 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...

, Assyrians

Assyrian people

The Assyrian people are a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia...

, Phrygians, Cimmerians

Cimmerians

The Cimmerians or Kimmerians were ancient equestrian nomads of Indo-European origin.According to the Greek historian Herodotus, of the 5th century BC, the Cimmerians inhabited the region north of the Caucasus and the Black Sea during the 8th and 7th centuries BC, in what is now Ukraine and Russia...

, Alexander the Great, Galatia

Galatia

Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Galatia was named for the immigrant Gauls from Thrace , who settled here and became its ruling caste in the 3rd century BC, following the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC. It has been called the "Gallia" of...

ns and then Ancient Romans and Pontic Greeks

Pontic Greeks

The Pontians are an ethnic group traditionally living in the Pontus region, the shores of Turkey's Black Sea...

. Following the defeat of Byzantium by the Turks at the battle of Malazgirt

Malazgirt

Malazgirt is a town in Muş Province in eastern Turkey, with a population of 23,697 .-Founding:...

 in 1071 the area was settled by Danishmend lords.

Many of Turkey's leading socks

SOCKS

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manufacturers are from Sungurlu.
There is a clock tower in the town, built in 1891.

External links

• A local news website