Kilimli
Kilimli is a district of Turkey's Zonguldak province. It became a district as a result of the law numbered 6360, which was accepted by the Turkish Grand National Assembly on 12 November 2012. It has a large port. Fishing has an important place in the economy of the district. The history of the region dates back to 1400 BC. The Hittite Empire, which was dominant in almost all of Central Anatolia, was destroyed with the migrations called the Aegean Migration Tribes movement that started in the 1200s and extended to Central Anatolia in Central Europe. communities became the first inhabitants of Zonguldak region and its surroundings. Along with the colonization process that started in Western Anatolia in the 6th century BC, commercial piers (emperion) were established in the region in places such as Ereğli (Herakleia Pontica), Hisarönü (Teion), Amasra (Sesamus). At the beginning of the 6th century BC, the Ligya State expanded towards the north and gained a superiority in the Zonguldak region and its surroundings. The region, which remained under the rule of Ligya until the Persian invasion in 546 BC, was divided into three as Bithynia, Cappadocia and Frifia after the invasion, and the region remained within Bithynia. Macedonian King Alexander, who went to Anatolia in 334 BC, ended the Persian rule, and Zonguldak and its surroundings remained under the Macedonian Kingdom until 74 BC. The region, which was within the borders of the Roman Empire from this date until the end of the 4th century AD, was connected to the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire as a result of the division of the empire in 395 AD. The region, which was captured by the Seljuks in the 6th century AD, was occupied first by the Byzantines and then by the Danishmends, due to the friction between the Anatolian Seljuk State and the Great Seljuk State in 1084. However, the Anatolian Seljuk State gathered after a short time and recaptured the region (1186). IV. After the Crusade, the Byzantines were in the process of disintegration and the Anatolian Seljuk State was in the process of collapse, so the coastline of the region was taken by the Genoese; Candarogullari developed in the inner parts. During the development period of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Murat I wanted to add the region's lands to the Ottoman border, but the people opposed this and sided with the Candarogullari. Thereupon, the Ottomans made an agreement with the Genoese and added Ereğli in 1380 and Zonguldak and its surroundings in 1392, and the commercial life on the coastline was again left to the Genoese. With the conquest of Amasra by Fatih Sultan Mehmet in 1460, the Christian merchants in the region migrated to Istanbul; When the region did not attract the attention of the Ottomans, it was plundered by Kazakh pirates in 1654 and later by janissaries who came to the region to protect the people against pirates. As a result of the region's losing its economic and commercial importance and the state's insufficient protection, the pressure of bandits and notables forced the people to migrate.
