Boyabat

Boyabat lies in the Gökırmak valley beneath a castle perched on one of two steep opposing cliffs. The stronghold overlooks a route through the mountains of Paphlagonia, between Kastamonu and the lands south of Sinop. The district passed through Danishmend, Seljuk and Candarid rule before the Ottomans took it in 1461. Rice cultivation in the Boyabat country is recorded from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, using the waters of its valleys.