Maps of Karabuk - Karabuk Map, Turkey
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Karabuk
The province of Karabuk is located in the Western Black Sea Region, and is a tourism paradise with its historical Safranbolu houses and ancient cities.
Karabuk carries the rightful honor of representing the industrialization process in the history of the Turkish Nation. In the first years of the Republic, as a result of the revolution decision of the Great Leader Ataturk on the manner of industrialization, Karabuk province was chosen for the foundation of the first integrated iron - steel facility of Turkey, because of its proximity to the mine coal catchment area and to the shoreline, because the province is located on the route of railway and because of its strategic convenience.
Karabuk had become a province during the Republic period. Karabuk was formerly a 13 housed quarter of a village of Safranbolu, which had become a district and bounded to Zonguldak Province in 1927. After the establishment of Ankara - Zonguldak railway in 1 June 1934 the station was called with the name of this 13 housed quarter and therefore the name Karabuk was officially stated on the maps of T.R. Governmental Railways for the first time. As it was a 13 housed quarter until 1937, after the foundation of the Iron - Steel Factory in 3 April 1937, name of Karabuk had been learned countrywide and worldwide.