Kümbet Yaylası

Last updated April 16, 2019

Kümbet (pronounced as "khu-em-bet") is a tourist attraction site in the Dereli district of Giresun Province, located in the Black Sea Region of Turkey.

Dereli is a town and district of Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. The mayor is Kazım Zeki Şenlikoğlu (AKP).

Giresun Province is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Trabzon to the east, Gümüşhane to the southeast, Erzincan to the south, Sivas to the southwest, and Ordu to the west. The provincial capital is Giresun.

Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. East Thrace, located in Europe, is separated from Anatolia by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorous strait and the Dardanelles. Turkey is bordered by Greece and Bulgaria to its northwest; Georgia to its northeast; Armenia, the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the south. Istanbul is the largest city, but more central Ankara is the capital. Approximately 70 to 80 per cent of the country's citizens identify as Turkish. Kurds are the largest minority; the size of the Kurdish population is a subject of dispute with estimates placing the figure at anywhere from 12 to 25 per cent of the population.

Etymology

In Iran and Turkey, where the Turks set up states and ruled for centuries, there are a number of examples of mausoleums. These monuments, referred to in Turkish as "kümbet"(gonbad), are a continuation of the Turkish burial customs of Central Asia. These structures are either polygonal or cylindrical in shape arid are covered with a dome. The main body of the monument rests on a cubic base, the corners of which are bevelled. In the examples built before the l6th century the dome is covered with a conical or pyramidal spire. Most of these monuments are two storied. Concealed inside the base, half of which is below ground level, is a crypt; the latter is covered by a vault and its floor is earth. The deceased was buried in the earth. The crypt had small loop-hole windows.

In traditional Persian architecture, a dome is referred to as a gonbad.

Description

Kümbet Yaylası ("Kuembet Plateau") is reached via Giresun-Dereli-Şebinkarahisar route which is 60 km from Giresun city centrum. The Plateau of Kümbet is 1640 meters high and its southern part is in Alpine zone. [1] The plateau has three frequently visited sites. In addition to the central settlement called Kümbet, Salon Çayırı and Aymaç are the other attractive settlements in Kümbet Plateau. The Salon Çayırı ("Living Room Meadow") is a very nice forest recreation area nearly 1 km from Kümbet. Aymaç (pronounced "i-match") is located to the northeast of Kümbet village and is reached via a route of 2 km. Aymaç has several small and large flat grasslands/pastures covered with many beautiful wild species of flowers and herbs. Especially lilies (Lilium ciliatum), endemic to Black Sea and flowering in July are the distinguished species of the plateau. The area also has a very rich forest consisting dominantly of oriental spruces ( Picea orientalis ).

Şebinkarahisar is a town in and the administrative seat for Şebinkarahisar District, Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of northeastern Turkey.

Alpine climate is the average weather (climate) for the regions above the tree line. This climate is also referred to as a mountain climate or highland climate.

Aymaç is a recreation area in Dereli district of Giresun Province located in eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey.

Kümbet Plateau Festivity

This cultural festivity is organized in the Kümbet Plateau in second week (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) of July in every year. The festivitiy is celebrated in Aymaç in the plateau. Its original local name is Kümbet Yayla Şenlikleri.

Kümbet Bazaar

Its most important feature making it different from other high plateau settlements is that Kümbet high plateau used both in winter and summer employs a function of a central bazaar function. During the summer season, every Friday, the day of the bazaar, population increases in Kümbet, where bungalows and predominantly two-floor houses are located. Another feature of Kümbet bazaar where many street vendors come from Giresun city and neighbouring administrative districts is the festivities called locally as Otçu Göçü Şenlikleri. [1] Today this festivities is yearly organized as "Kümbet Yayla Şenlikleri" in the second weekend of July.

A bazaar is a permanently enclosed marketplace or street where goods and services are exchanged or sold. The term originates from the Persian word bāzār. The term bazaar is sometimes also used to refer to the "network of merchants, bankers and craftsmen" who work in that area. Although the current meaning of the word is believed to have originated in Persia, its use has spread and now has been accepted into the vernacular in countries around the world. In Balinese, the word pasar means "market." The capital of Bali province, in Indonesia, is Denpasar, which means "north market." Souq is another word used in the Middle East for an open-air marketplace or commercial quarter.

Related Research Articles

Ordu Province is a province of Turkey, located on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Samsun to the northwest, Tokat to the southwest, Sivas to the south, and Giresun to the east. Its license-plate code is 52. The capital of the province is the city of Ordu.

Zanjan is the capital of Zanjan Province in Iranian Azerbaijan. It lies 298 km (185 mi) north-west of Tehran on the main highway to Tabriz and Turkey and approximately 125 km (78 mi) from the Caspian Sea. The city is located about 20 kilometers south of the Qaflankuh Mountain Range. At the 2016 census, its population was 521,302 which is the 20th largest city in Iran. The population of Zanjan consists mostly of Iranian Azeris who can also speak the Azerbaijani language. Zanjan is 21733 square kilometers.

The Municipality of Brezovica is a municipality in central Slovenia, just south of its capital Ljubljana. It has approximately 9,300 inhabitants. Its administrative centre is the settlement of Brezovica pri Ljubljani. It is the central municipality in the Ljubljana Marshes. The entire municipality is part of the traditional region of Inner Carniola and is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. To the east, it borders the municipalities of Ljubljana and Ig. To the south, it borders the Municipality of Cerknica, to the west the municipalities of Borovnica and Vrhnika, and to the north the Municipality of Dobrova–Polhov Gradec.

Düzce is the capital city of Düzce Province is the eighty-first Province in Turkey. Dursun Ay (AKP) was elected the mayor in the provincial council after Mehmet Keleş resigned from the position. The population in 2009 was 125,240, an increase from 61,878 in 1990.

Alucra is a town and a district of Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 130 km (81 mi) from the city of Giresun. It was a district of Şebinkarahisar province between 1924-1933.

Espiye is a town and a district of Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

Görele is a town and a district of Giresun Province on the Black Sea coast of eastern Turkey. The population was 16,033 in 2010.

Yağlıdere is a town and district of Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

Seben is a town and a district of Bolu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 56 km south of the town of Bolu. It covers an area of 682 km², and the population (2000) is 8,871 of which 4,334 live in the town of Seben. The mayor is Süleyman Özbağ (AKP).

Gelevara Deresi is one of two main streams of Espiye, a district of Giresun province in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. Its two main tributaries arise in the highlands of Espiye district of Giresun and Torul district of Gümüşhane.

Karagöl is a tourist attraction of Giresun Province located in eastern Black Sea region of Turkey.

Bektaş is a highland and settlement in Giresun Province of Turkey.

Aksu is the name of a small village, located in the upper basin of the Aksu Deresi stream in Dereli district of Giresun Province.

Avren is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Varna Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Avren Municipality in the eastern part of Varna Province.

The Cathedral of Kars, also known as the Holy Apostles Church is a former Armenian Apostolic church in Kars, eastern Turkey. Built in the mid-10th century by the Armenian Bagratid King Abas I, it was converted into a mosque in 1579. In the 19th and early 20th century it was converted into a Russian Orthodox and later Armenian cathedral. In 1993 it was again converted into a mosque and is called Kümbet Mosque. It currently comprises part of a larger Islamic complex that includes the Evliya Mosque, the biggest mosque in Kars.

References

1 2 Aydınözü, D., Solmaz, F. A Typical Sample of the High Plateau Activities in The East Black- Sea Region: Giresun Kumbet High Plateau , Gazi Eğitim Fak. Dergisi.

External links

Information about Kümbet at the Web site of Giresun Governorship (in Turkish)

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[multiple-1] 1 2 Aydınözü, D., Solmaz, F. A Typical Sample of the High Plateau Activities in The East Black- Sea Region: Giresun Kumbet High Plateau , Gazi Eğitim Fak. Dergisi.