The history, culture and untold stories of Çorum
From Hattusa to Alacahöyük, from the timber houses of İskilip to the bridge of Osmancık — explore Çorum district by district, mound by mound.
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Boğazköy Museum
Affiliated with the Çorum Museum Directorate, the Boğazköy Museum in Boğazkale is a local Hittite museum displaying find…
Alacahöyük Museum
Affiliated with the Çorum Museum, the Alacahöyük Museum displays finds ranging from the Chalcolithic to the Phrygian era…
Çorum Museum
Located in the heartland of the Hittite civilization, the Çorum Museum displays finds from Alacahöyük, Boğazköy-Hattuşa,…
The Municipality Building
Built as a library in the early years of the Republic, this two-storey, neo-classical cut-stone building now serves as Ç…
Redif Barracks (Redif Kışlası)
Located in the İskilip district of Çorum and dating to the early 20th century, the Redif Barracks is a rectangular, thre…
Houses of Çorum
Two- to three-story timber-frame and adobe mansions that reflect Çorum's traditional vernacular architecture, with their…
İncesu Canyon
A 12.5 km-long, deep canyon with steep rocky slopes in the village of İncesu in the Ortaköy district, well suited to out…
Laçin Recreation Area
Set across a broad area covered in pine forest with a commanding view of the valley, the Laçin Recreation Area is one of…
Bayat Plateau (Yayla)
A plateau in Çorum's Bayat district, about 1,800 meters above sea level, surrounded by pine and hornbeam forests and ide…
Çorum Cuisine
All →Çorum Roasted Chickpeas (Leblebi)
Çorum's signature snack: double-roasted yellow leblebi made from soaked, rested chickpeas peeled with a wooden tool call
İskilip Dolması
A traditional İskilip wedding dish in which meat and rice are slow-cooked for hours in giant cauldrons, the rice steamed
Keşkek
A ceremonial wedding and special-occasion dish made by slow-cooking and pounding cracked wheat together with meat until
Çorum Folk Songs
All →Aba da Bir Kebe de Bir Giyene (Coarse Cloak or Felt, All the Same)
One of Çorum's oldest documented folk songs, collected in the town center in 1939; it teaches that a person's worth lies
İğdenin Dalları Yerdedir Yerde (The Oleaster's Branches Bend to the Ground)
A lively, much loved Çorum tune collected in the Alaca district that likens a lover's longing to the laden branches of t
Türkmen Kızı Yaktı Bizi (A Turkmen Girl Has Set Us Aflame)
A cheerful Çorum tune about love for a Turkmen girl, collected by Muzaffer Sarısözen and entered into the TRT repertoire