Kıbrus

Kıbrus lies in the wooded mountains south of Bolu, among high pastures and valleys descending toward the Sakarya basin. Ottoman records from the sixteenth century name it as a district of the Bolu sancak. Its villages included settlements called Kızık and Yuva, names associated with Oğuz Turkish tribes. In this upland country, the seasonal pastures and the villages below formed distinct parts of the local landscape.