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Taşköprü treats Taşköprü district of Kastamonu Province as a hemp-growing area, from the Ottoman tax registers to the hemp sown again since 2020. The region it belongs to is Black Sea Region (Turkey).
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Why the area is mapped
- Taştemir (2003, pp. 6–7) reads the tax registers of 1486 and 1560: Taşköprü kaza produced about 93 and 98 per cent of the hemp recorded for the kazas of Kastamonu, İnebolu, Sinop and Taşköprü, and he calls Taşköprü the place where hemp was most widely sown.
- The Kastamonu yearbooks of 1871 (cited by Akpınar and Nizamoğlu 2019, p. 1228) and of 1310 AH (cited by Bayram 2024, p. 502) name Taşköprü among the places where most hemp was grown; the Kastamonu yearbook of 1933 (cited by Bayram, pp. 505–506) counts 75 Taşköprü villages growing it continuously.
- TRT Haber (13 October 2020) reports a harvest on about 20 decares at Yazıhamit; Cumhuriyet (2 May 2022) reports about 1,000 decares of trial sowings in the district.
Growing status
- The status is Active: hemp was harvested in the district in 2020 and sown on about 1,000 decares in 2022, under licence, for fibre and seed.
- Clarke (2023, p. 9) also writes that hemp has been grown again in Kastamonu Province since 2015, at province scale.
How the border is drawn
- The border is Taşköprü district in OpenStreetMap (administrative relation 1426789), simplified, about 1,760 km². The sources name the kaza and the district; the modern district stands in for the Ottoman kaza, whose limits were not compared with the district's.
- Kastamonu's central district and Daday, named with Taşköprü in the yearbooks of 1871 and 1933, are outside the border. They are described on the region's page.
- The map point (41.51, 34.21) is Taşköprü town.
Sources
- Taştemir 2003 was read in full (pp. 1–24). His Table 1 does not add up as printed: the Taşköprü row for 1486 (634 tithe units, 9,761 kg) is larger than the table's own total (682 units, 5,250 kg), and the text gives the rise from 1486 to 1560 as 5,250 to about 46,500 kg while the table's 1560 total is 92,899 kg. The article gives only his percentages and his statement that Taşköprü sowed the most hemp.
- Akpınar and Nizamoğlu 2019 and Bayram 2024 were read in full. The yearbooks they cite (1871, 1307 and 1310 AH, 1933) and Öğütcü (1934) were not seen directly.
- Clarke 2023 was read in full. Several of his Ottoman-period statements are sourced to an unreferenced conversation; none of those is used.
- Erhan Afyoncu's column in Sabah (13 January 2019) relays Taştemir's figures and gives 90,981 kg for Taşköprü in 1520, where Taştemir's table has that figure under 1560. It is not used.
Where the sources disagree
- The factory. Akpınar and Nizamoğlu write that the foundation of the Taşköprü hemp factory was laid in 1942, describe a foundation ceremony on 2 June 1945 and date completion to 1947. Başer and Bozoğlu (2020, p. 129) date it to 1946. Clarke (2023, p. 9) dates a retting and processing plant at Taşköprü to 1946 and a twine factory to 1949. The article gives all three.
- The 1939 figure. Clarke writes that Taşköprü, Tire and Ödemiş each produced about 1,000 tonnes in 1939, citing Akpınar and Nizamoğlu. Their text gives 3,000 tonnes for Kastamonu (central kaza and Taşköprü together) and 1,000 tonnes for Tire and Ödemiş together. The article gives no 1939 figure for Taşköprü alone.
- The gap before 2020. The mayor of Taşköprü spoke in 2020 of hemp lost 17 years earlier; a company official quoted by Cumhuriyet in 2022 spoke of a gap of 20 to 25 years. Neither figure is used as a year.