Aydıncık
Although there is no definite information about the establishment of Aydıncık district, the historical evidence found in the surrounding shows that it has been used as an important settlement in every period of history since ancient times.
It is said that the written sources about Aydıncık were destroyed in a fire in the Zile Library. There is no definite information about when the area was settled and where the people living now came from. However, it is said that the people living in Aydıncık today are the Turkmens who settled here in the 15th and 16th centuries from the vicinity of Amasya, Sivas and Kahramanmaraş.
It is said that some saints who came to Anatolia from Khorasan in order to spread Islam during the Great Seljuk State also lived in this region and their graves are here. There are rumors that there are saints of Esisarı and Gölcük in Asar Kayası, Çomak Dede in front of Çalın Taş, and Güldede in the cemetery. It is also rumored that Karacaoğlan lived in this region and his grave is said to be located in Karacaoğlan.
The main and ancient name of the village, known as Mamure, is Eskiköy, and it is known that it is a township that has been formed for 200 years with this name. There is not enough information about whether there was a fully organized township that was formed years before the Alaca and Sorgun districts were formed.
It is known that both the gendarmerie and the police force exist in the township. In 325, Tokat Province Superintendent Ahmet Dilaver Efendi was appointed to the first class Township Directorate, and came to Eskiköy and took the township. At that time, Eskiköy was a first-class township, the Gendarmerie Team was opened in the township on the same date, a person named Mülazım Sami Niyazı from Konya was appointed as the team commander and came to Eskiköy, where a large two-storey Government Mansion was built in 1929, this building was built in 1950. It is known that it was demolished spontaneously in .
It is known that the police station was first opened in another place and transferred here, that the township was connected to the Sivas province, and its accident was Zile, which was connected to the Tokat Sanjak. It is estimated that the police station was opened here because there were 65 villages connected to the Eskiköy Sub-district at that time, both because the sub-district did not have a vehicle and because the Zile district to which it was affiliated was 65 kilometers away.
It is not known whether the sub-district organization was transferred here from another place. The number of villages constituting the township region is 65, and since security and public order in the country returned to normal in 1337, Eskiköy was taken from Zile district and connected to Yozgat province, and 33 of the villages were connected to Zile and Alaca districts. In this case, it is known that Eskiköy has 32 villages, including the center.
The name of the township was known as Eskiköy, which means old settlement center for many years. It was named Mamure during the district and was known by this name for many years. After being a township in 1965, the name of Mamure was changed again in 1958 and became Aydıncık. In 1991, Aydıncık became a district.
