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	Bolu, Turkey
		Sandwiched between the densely forested mountains of Bolu Dag (1,829m/6,002ft) to the north and the Köroglu Daglari (2,378m/7,804ft) to the south, the provincial capital of Bolu is situated in the Bolu Ovasi, a small basin west of the Bolu Kargi depression.
		Bolu in fact has been a thriving commercial center ever since ancient times and was a halt on the trade route to central Anatolia - coach services between Istanbul and Ankara still break their journey here.
		Under Theodosius II (408-450) the town became the capital of the new province of Honorias, and in the Byzantine period was the seat of a metropolitan bishop.
	www.planetware.com /turkey/bolu-tr-bo-bo.htm (251 words)

	Anatolia.com
		Bolu is one of the most enchanting areas of Turkey located approximately half-way between Istanbul and Ankara.
		Bolu is famous for its dense forests and modern hot spring facilities.
		It is 55 kms southwest of this province, situated at an altitude of 1500 meters.
	www.anatolia.com /anatolia/destinations/bolu (264 words)

	Bolu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bolu (Latin Bithynium) is a town in Turkey, and administrative center of the Bolu Province.
		The town is located at 40°44´N 31°36´E, at the highway from Istanbul to Ankara, which presently has to climb Bolu Mountain, until 2006 when the Bolu Tunnel is planned to be opened.
		The region arround Bolu is famous for chicken food.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bolu (114 words)

	Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture - Bolu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bolu province is the city where the shades of green and blue embraces each other, sleeping and waking together, where the wind still whispers one of the most dramatic legends at the peaks of the high mountains, where numerous civilizations was founded and developed, leaving plenty of creations and artwork behind.
		Reaching Bolu Province is quite easy, as the city is located nearly at the middle point of the highway, which connects the two major cities, Ankara and Istanbul.
		Districts: Dörtdivan, Gerede, Göynük, Kıbrısçık, Mengen, Mudurnu, Seben and Yeniçağa are the district of Bolu province.
	goturkey.kultur.gov.tr /destinasyon_en.asp?belgeno=9587&belgekod=9587&Baslik=Bolu (146 words)

	Black Sea Region, Turkey
		All of the provinces of Artvin, Rize, Trabzon, Gumushane, Bayburt, Giresun, Ordu, Sinop, Samsun, Amasya, Kastamonu, Zonguldak, Bartin, Bolu, and almost all of Tokat, are in the Black Sea Region.
		Artova County of Tokat Province is in the Central Anatolia Region.
		The marshes, the expansive pastures and dense forests of the province have ensured the development in the fields of cropland agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry.
	www.enjoyturkey.com /info/sights/blacksea.htm (1771 words)

	Bolu Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bolu is a province in north western Turkey, around the ancient city of Bolu.
		The highway from Istanbul to Ankara passes through Bolu after climbing Bolu Mountain, the major topographical obstacle.
		Yedigoller National Park (Seven Lakes) is located in Bolu province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bolu_Province (111 words)

	UNICEF Recovery Plan for Turkish Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With the exception of Sakarya province (Adapazari City), the population sheltered in tented camps in Kocaeli, Yalova, and Bolu provinces is higher than the population sheltered in prefabricated houses.
		The huge discrepancy between the tented camps and prefabricated city population in Bolu province is related to the fact that Bolu was the epicentre of the latest earthquake, dated 12 November 1999.
		In Yalova province, 42 of the 53 schools that existed before the earthquake are currently operating, indicating an increase of 3 schools in the province during the last two weeks.
	www.die.gov.tr /CIN/emergency/recovery-dec30/recovery-dec30.htm (3427 words)

	National - Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A lake in a typical karst landscape in the Isparta province.
		In the Ceyhan valley in the Adana province.
		In the middle of the " seven lakes" in a mixed wood — this is a region that abounds in fish and is located in Bolu province.
	www.albeni.de /english/nparks.htm (1023 words)

	Bolu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is the capital of the Bolu province with 270,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
		Bolu is well connected by road with other nearby urban centres.
		The city centre of Bolu is modern and quite standard.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/bolu.htm (156 words)

	Anadolu Agency: News in English, 98-05-24
		BOLU, May 24 (A.A) - A landslide occured in the Burnuk village in the Caydurt county of Bolu province in the Western Black Sea region late on Saturday.
		BOLU, May 24 (A.A) - Two American families composed of 11 people including seven children, who were stranded because of the landslide caused by the flood in Yedigoller area in northwestern Bolu province, were rescued on Saturday evening.
		The sown fields in the Ugurludag and Bayat counties of Corum province were flooded and the flood started to threaten the rice planted grounds in Dodurga and Oguzlar counties of Corum and in the city center of Osmancik county.
	www.hri.org /news/turkey/anadolu/1998/98-05-24.anadolu.html (3733 words)

	Earthquakes in Turkey - All About Turkey
		The disaster was followed by more than 1,300 aftershocks, culminating in the second quake - which shook Düzce and Kaynasli counties in the north-western province of Bolu, some 100 km's to the east of Izmit for 30 seconds - at 18h57 on 12 November 1999 and rated 7.2 on the Richter scale.
		The destruction in Bolu and Düzce was widespread, with the total affected population between 150,000 and 180,000; early assessments indicated that some 800 buildings have been heavily damaged and the Government has estimated the financial cost of the quake at US$ 10 billion.
		Besides Bolu and Düzce, the neighboring districts of Kaynasli (70% of the town is considered to be destroyed), Akcakoca, Cumayeri, Gümüsova, Yigilca and Gölkaya have been affected.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /deprem.htm (1976 words)

	Turkey Provinces
		These, therefore, are the province populations used by the State Institute of Statistics to compute per capita GDP for 2001.
		It leaves the FIPS code for Bolu province unchanged, although Düzce was split from Bolu, and usually when a province loses territory its FIPS code will change.
		~1946: Çoruh province split into Artvin and Rize; Bitlis province formed from parts of Muş; and Siirt; Çapakçur and Tunceli provinces formed from parts of Elazığ; and Erzincan; Hakkâri province split from Van; capital of Ağri province moved from Bayazit to Karaköse.
	www.statoids.com /utr.html (1375 words)

	The Examiner - World News - 13, November, 1999
		It was centred in Bolu province, which includes Duzce, a hilly region located halfway between Ankara and Istanbul and hit at 6:57 p.m.
		The Bolu region, an area of hilly forests, was on the fringe of an area devastated by the August 17 earthquake which left hundreds of thousands homeless.
		Two people died in the province Sakarya and reports of injuries came in from numerous towns and cities.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1999/11/13/fpage_8.htm (487 words)

	UNICEF Recovery Plan for Turkish Children
		On average, almost 6% of the total population in the 4 affected provinces are sheltered in tented camps.
		In Bolu province, up to 16.6% of the total population is living in tented camps, in comparison to only 1.8% in Sakaraya province.
		The huge discrepancy noticed in Bolu province is related to the fact that Bolu was the epicentre of the latest earthquake dated 12 November 1999.
	www.die.gov.tr /CIN/emergency/recovery-dec15/recovery-dec15.htm (4390 words)

	The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology
		In this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and Brucella antibodies in the Bolu province.
		According to this classification, the Bolu region is near the lower borderline of moderate endemicity (2.85%) (3).
		Furthermore, Bolu was divided into local districts, and samples were collected by public survey in an effort to represent the whole population.
	www.turkgastro.org /text.php?id=307 (1629 words)

	Emeğin Partisi - EMEP - The Party of Labour
		The Hatay (a province situated in the Mediterranean region of Turkey with a majority of an Arab population) Provincial Organisation of our Party has organised a celebration on the 60th anniversary of the defeat of fascism.
		An activity was also organised by the Labour Youth in Antalya (a major province situated in the South of the country, directly in the Mediterranean) to commemorate Deniz, Yusuf and Huseyin on the day they were killed by the state and to celebrate the defeat of fascism.
		The Diyarbakir (one of the most populated provinces in the Southeast region of Turkey, also considered to be one of the most important Kurdish provinces) Provincial Organisation of our Party held an activity in the Conference Hall of the Kurdish Institute in order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the defeat of fascism.
	www.emep.org /news/8mayis_ulke.html (1833 words)

	Anadolu Agency: News in English, 99-11-14
		Efforts to reach Yasemin Yilmaz and her two sons who were trapped under wreckage of a toppled building, are continuing in Kaynasli county of Bolu province.
		Addressing a press conference, Pinar said that 70 aftershocks were recorded in the region in the wake of Friday's 7.2-magnitude quake that was centered on Duzce county of Bolu province.
		BOLU, Nov 14 (A.A) - Death toll increased to 330 on Sunday in the disaster area struck by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake which was centered on Duzce county of Bolu province.
	www.hri.org /news/turkey/anadolu/1999/99-11-14.anadolu.html (4009 words)

	Earth Changes TV - Large 7.2 Quake Hits Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A 39-year-old woman died of a heart attack in the town of Yalova in the Kocaeli province on the Marmara Sea coast, while two people were killed in the neighbouring province of Sakarya, the agency said.
		Fires broke out in buildings in Bolu province while electricity was cut off and telephone lines were jammed following the tremor, making communication diffciculty with the quake zone, Anatolia said.
		In a live telephone interview with the NTV channel, the chief of police in Bolu appealed for ambulances but added that the main motorway between Bolu and Istanbul was closed.
	www.earthchangestv.com /breaking/November/1112turkey.htm (469 words)

	CNN - Strong earthquake rattles Turkey; at least 20 reported dead - November 12, 1999
		Friday's quake was centered in the Bolu province town of Duzce in northwestern Turkey, 185 kilometers (115 miles) east of Istanbul.
		Ugur Gur, the police chief of the nearby town of Bolu, said the quake set off explosions that triggered fires in some buildings, and severed the road to Istanbul.
		Bolu province lies on the edges of the area affected by the August 17 quake, which measured 7.4, leveled thousands of buildings and set off a chain of aftershocks that have continued throughout the fall.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9911/12/turkey.quake.02 (445 words)

	ACT Appeals
		The second earthquake, on November 12, 1999, was further to the east and centred on Duzce, a town of approximately 80,000 persons in the Bolu Province.
		The province of Bolu currently hosts the largest number of organised tent cities with a total of eight camps, while the Kocaeli province hosts five organised tent camps.
		At one intersection between the Kaynasli and Bolu towns, an area of 200 meters comprising two lanes of the four-lane highway collapsed due to an earthquake induced landslide.
	www.act-intl.org /appeals/appeals_2001/METR11.html (14979 words)

	The Examiner - World News - 25, November, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		SOLDIERS dug canals in rain soaked tent cities yesterday and distributed waterproof plastic sheeting to thousands in flimsy huts as survivors of Turkey’s latest earthquake battled rain and braced for an expected snowstorm.
		Tens of thousands of people are still living in makeshift wood and plastic shelters amid the strong winds and freezing temperatures in Bolu province.
		The provincial governor of Bolu was under fire today for slapping a quake victim in public and having her detained for ‘‘provoking’’ the people.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1999/11/25/fpage_7.htm (422 words)

	tribuneindia... World
		ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (Reuters) — Security was today tightened in Islamabad as the authorities widened an investigation into who was behind the launching of six rockets at US and UN facilities in the middle of the busy Pakistani Capital.
		BOLU: A collapsed building is seen following the earthquake in the Turkish western city of Bolu on Friday.
		However, the briefcase could not be found as the thieves threw it into a garbage container, which was emptied before investigators could search it.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99nov14/world.htm (2650 words)

	Türk Info
		The densest areas are located north of Gerede and Bolu and in the northern part of the high areas around Kızılcahamam.
		Yet if one considers that in the Erzurum-Kars and Bolu areas one out of every two-three villages is engaged in plateau business, it is clear that that the village-plateau relationship in Turkey is very common.
		The people of the eastern Black Sea region go to the high plateaus located between the mountains at heights of 2,000 meters, where there are glades in the forests to escape the heat and humidity and feed their animals with natural fodder.
	www.turkinfo.info /Eng/doc_main.php (6897 words)

	Boeing Frontiers Online
		When a massive earthquake ravaged northwestern Turkey in the fall of 1999, it ripped deep into the heart of the rural province of Bolu by damaging a children's primary school.
		Indeed, even before the earthquake, the school wasn't big enough to provide all students with a full day of schooling: Half the students attended in the morning, and the rest in the afternoon.
		Not only did the earthquake destroy one school building and severely damage others, but the facility also was desperately needed to accommodate the influx of children resettling in the city of Bolu after the tragedy.
	www.boeing.com /news/frontiers/archive/2004/september/cover3.html (504 words)

	CNN - Turkey reeling from latest deadly quake - November 12, 1999
		In Bolu, Reuters correspondents reported victims were treated in hospital parking lots as the buildings were deemed unsafe and kept empty due to cracks in their walls caused by the deadly quake that struck Turkey on August 17.
		The 30-second quake rocked Turkey's northwestern province of Bolu.
		Bolu province lies on the edges of the area affected by the August quake, which measured 7.4, leveled thousands of buildings and set off a chain of aftershocks that have continued throughout the fall.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9911/12/turkey.quake.04 (657 words)

	Earth Changes TV - Earthquake Shakes Northwest Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A moderate quake shook the northwestern province of Bolu today, causing some roofs to cave in and cracks in walls.
		The quake, which struck on the first day of a new school term, prompted authorities to suspend classes in Bolu province as panicked parents rushed to schools to meet their children, the agency said.
		More than 800 people were killed around Bolu by the Nov. 12 quake, which followed a deadlier quake farther west that killed more than 17,000 people in August.
	www.earthchangestv.com /breaking/February2000/0214turkey.htm (181 words)

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