Tokat


Tokat

(tōkät`), city (1990 pop. 83,174), capital of Tokat prov., N central Turkey. It is an agricultural market with copper manufactures. An important town in Roman times, it declined under the Byzantines but revived after its capture by the Ottoman Turks in 1402.

Tokat

 

a city in northern Turkey, in the Yeşil River valley. Capital of the vilayet of Tokat. Population, 48,500 (1975). Tokat, a highway junction, has enterprises of the food-processing and rubber industries. The city is the commercial center of an agricultural region that mainly produces grain and wool. Chromites are mined near Tokat.