Ulus

Ulus lies in the wooded country inland from the Black Sea, near Safranbolu, in a valley where the Ulus and Eldeş streams meet among the hills and forests of the western Black Sea coast.

It was a small settlement that passed into Ottoman hands during Bayezid I's campaign of 1392, and local tradition gives several explanations for its name. In the early eighteenth century the local writer İbrahim Hamdi Efendi described the forests of Ulu Yaylak and Gökbeli in his Atlas.