Akçaşehir

Akçaşehir lies on the Black Sea coast north of the inland plain of Düzce. In antiquity the harbour, known as Diapolis, served the city of Prusias on the Hypius beyond the coastal hills. Turkish sources call the settlement Akçaşehir after its incorporation into the early Ottoman realm in the fourteenth century. The anchorage and the wooded slopes behind it linked the coast to the fertile basin of the interior.