Turhal

Turhal
Turhal
Municipality
	Turhal Location in Turkey
	Coordinates: 40°23′24″N 36°05′24″E / 40.39000°N 36.09000°E
Country	Turkey
Province	Tokat
District	Turhal
Government
• Mayor	İlker Bekler (AKP)
Elevation	493 m (1,617 ft)
Population (2022)	62,030
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Postal code	60300
Area code	0356
Website	www.turhal.bel.tr

Turhal is a city in

Yeşil Irmak river. It has an elevation of approximately 530 m. The city is best known for its sugar beet processing plant established in 1934 as an important enterprise of the young Turkish Republic

.

History

The first nucleus of Turhal appeared as an important

Mesopotamian cultures such as Sumerians who had already invented an effective alphabet

.

The Persian invasion in Anatolia during the 6th century BC made this region an important center influenced by the cult of Zoroastrianism. The famous geographer of the antiquity, Strabo has, on various occasions, drawn up different accounts on the region describing Turhal as a fortress in the north of another ancient city named Gayyura.

In the 3rd century BC, the region was occupied by the contingents of Alexander the Great's Macedonian army, but many insurrections had also taken place in this era as the Macedonian occupiers couldn't build up a total control on the region.

After the collapse of Alexander's Empire (as Alexander died in 323 BC), the region was taken over by the

Roman Catholic Church to this day. Evagrius Ponticus

was born there in the mid fourth century.

During the Byzantine era, the region had undergone several raids from the

Sassanids in the 4th and 5th centuries, later from the Muslim Arabs

in the 8th century.

As the constant Turkish immigration to Anatolia and the emerging

Temur

, Turhal was taken over once more by the Ottomans in 1413.

The most significant change in the

Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878

.