Aybastı

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title: "Aybastı" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-ordu-province", "districts-of-ordu-province", "metropolitan-district-municipalities-in-turkey"] topic_path: "geography/turkey" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aybastı" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
type	metro district
name	Aybastı
image_skyline	Aybastı Merkez.jpg
image_map	Districts of Ordu.png
map_caption	Map showing Aybastı District in Ordu Province
coordinates
province	Ordu
leader_party	AKP
leader_name	Izzet Gündoğar
area_total_km2	250
elevation_m	764
population_footnotes
population_total	20969
population_as_of	2022
postal_code	52500
area_code	0452
website
blank1_name	Climate
blank1_info	Csb
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Etymology

The town was formerly known as Ibasdi (variants include Ibasda and Ibassa, Ίβασσα in ancient Greek) and mutated to Aybastı in the 20th century.

Geography

Aybastı is a rural, agricultural district in the foothills of the Canik Mountains above the Black Sea coast, 54 km inland from the coastal town of Fatsa. The climate and flora are typical of the central Black Sea region although the district is drier at high altitudes. This is good agricultural land with 192 km2 of meadow and 116 km2 of farmland. The road up here from the coast is slow and winding, the journey takes over an hour, and journey from here up into the mountains is even worse, some of it on dirt roads. The people of these country villages are very traditional, for example they marry between the ages of 15 and 22 by arrangement between the families.

Aybastı itself is a small town providing high schools, a hospital and other basic amenities to the surrounding area. Market day is Saturday. The town is growing and today most buildings are four stories or more, the local economy is boosted by money coming from families that since the 1960s have been living and working in Istanbul, Ankara or abroad (especially France and Austria).

Composition

There are 21 neighbourhoods in Aybastı District:

Alacalar
Armutlu
Beşdam
Çakırlı
Çukur
Esenli
Fatih
Hisarcık
Karamanlı
Kayabaşı
Koyunculu
Küçükyaka
Kutlular
Ortaköy
Pelitözü
Safalık
Sağlık
Sarıyar
Toygar
Uzundere
Zaferimilli

Places of interest

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Perşembe Plateau () is a high meadow, one of the biggest tourist attractions in the area, located 17 km from the town of Aybastı. Under snow in winter but popular with walkers and trekkers in summer, when there are folklore festivals and country fairs in the 3rd week of July.

Perşembe Plateau has one of the best example of meander in Turkey even its picture is already taken place at geography textbooks.

References

[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
"İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping.
"Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports". [[TÜİK]].
Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. "Geographical information on Aybastı, Turkey".
[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.

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