Düzce City Center
Düzce is the central district of Düzce province in Turkey. It is the provincial center of Düzce, which was separated from the province of Bolu on December 9, 1999 and gained the status of a province. It is under the influence of the Black Sea climate. It is usually rainy. One of the colonial cities in the Western Black Sea in the 1st millennium BC was Diospolis, and another was Hypia, a second city located near the Hypios River.
The region, including Düzce Province, is known as the homeland of the Thracian peoples between 1200-700 BC, according to ancient writers such as Herodotus, Xenophon and Strabo. 6th century BC. The region, which includes Düzce along with Paphlagonia, Phrygia, Mariandines and Syria, was turned into the 3rd Satrapy Region by the Persian ruler Darius. The region, which was taken into the borders of the empire after 334 BC by the Macedonian King Alexander the Great, was included in the Bithynia Kingdom as a result of the division of the empire among the generals upon the death of the King in 323 BC in Babylon. Bithynia is an ancient region in the northwest of Anatolia, where today's Kocaeli Peninsula is located. It is surrounded by the Black Sea in the north, the Filyos River in the east, and the Ancient Phrygia Epictetus in the west and southwest. Today, Kocaeli, Iznik, Yalova, Bursa, Bilecik, Sakarya, Düzce, Bolu and Zonguldak provinces are located in the region. Chalcedon , Nicomedia, Astakos, Kios-Prusias ad Mare, Apameia/Myrleia , Prusa ad Olympium, Nikaia, Bithynion-Claudiupolis, Heracleia, Otroia , Modrene, Malagina, Agrilion, Kabaia, Thynias-Apollonia and Pruspiios ad Hyumpiospolis have cities. There are archaeological data bearing deep traces of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods in the ancient cities of Prusias ad Hypium and Diapolis, which are located within the borders of the province of Düzce. Dia-Diapolis, one of these cities, is one of the colonial cities formed on the Black Sea coast in the 1st millennium BC.
