Yakakent - History

The establishment of Yakakent goes to 2nd century B.C. In the period of Byzantium, the name of the town was "Kominos". It is said that Yavuz Sultan Selim ruined the town while he was passing to Trabzon for Çaldıran Cruise, because the inhabitants did not know the Ottoman Empire. The word "Kominos" means headless bishop. The people who came to the town later changed its name to "Gümenez". Today's Yakakent was constructed by some families coming from Gerze in 1800. Yakakent grew bigger with the people from the East Black Sea who run from the Russian invasion between 1893 and 1895 and the people coming from Thessalonica in 1922.


GEOGRAPHY
Yakakent is the access point between Sinop provincial border and Samsun provincial border where the green and the blue join on the coast of the Black Sea and it is 84 km to Samsun. There is Alaçam in the east, Gerze in the west, Canik Mountains in the south and the Black Sea in the north.

CLIMATE

ECONOMY
The economy of the district has an agricultural identity and also, fishery is the heart of the economy. It is possible to find all kinds of fish caught in the Black Sea, the world-famous sturgeon and the endangered Mavruşgil (sciaena umbra) here. The reason why Mavruşgil exists here is that sea water is very clean. Among the handicrafts in the villages, the carpet business is in the forefront. So, the carpet business is an important source of income for the district.
In our district that has a rich variety in fish, besides the fish meal and fish oil factories of the private sector that process the seafood, some seafood such as ray, shark, snailfish and sand mussel are processed and deep frozen and exported to other countries, especially Japan.

TRANSPORTATION