Gadegara

Gadegara stands in a fertile valley inland from the Black Sea, west of the Kızılırmak River. Local histories record that the Seljuk sultan Mesud rebuilt the town under this name in the twelfth century. Later known as Vezirköprü, it grew among wooded hills and cultivated ground on roads connecting the interior with the Pontic coast. Ottoman tax registers record the town and its communities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.