Bartın

Sister cities

• Fontaniva
• Lünen

History

The history of the antique Parthenios city (Παρθένιος in Greek), or Parthenia, dates back to 1200 BC, when its area was inhabited by the Kaskian tribe. In the following centuries, the region had entered under the dominance of Hittites, Phrygians, Cimmerians, Lydians, Greeks, and Persians. Later, it was part of the Roman Empire and then of the Byzantine Empire, until it fell to the Seljuk Turks and the Candaroğulları State between the 11th and the 13th centuries AD. Bartın was conquered by the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II in 1460. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Bartın was part of the Kastamonu Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

Geography

The city of Bartın consists of 22 quarters: * Kırtepe * Kemerköprü * Gölbucağı * Orta * Okulak * Köyortası * Orduyeri * Tuna * Demirciler * Aladağ * Karaköy * Çaydüzü * Esentepe * Cumhuriyet * Hürriyet * Karaçay * Ağdacı * Gecen * Gürgenpınarı * Şiremirçavuş * Uzunöz * Yıldız Bartın has a borderline oceanic (Cfb) and humid subtropical (Cfa) climate under the Köppen classification, or an oceanic climate (Do) under the Trewartha classification. Summers are warm, the average temperature is around in July and August. Winters are cool and damp, and the average temperature is around in January and February. For a long time, Bartın city center was considered to only have an oceanic climate (Cfb), with its warmest month being well below the threshold, yet in recent decades climate change and global warming has been contributing to its classification slowly turning humid subtropical (Cfa) and therefore the city center is currently classified as borderline oceanic-humid subtropical. Precipitation is heaviest in autumn and early winter and lightest in spring. Snowfall is somewhat common between the months of December and March, snowing for a week or two, and it can be heavy once it snows. Highest recorded temperature: on 13 July 2000Lowest recorded temperature: on 23 February 1985