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Karabük

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Karabük, town, northwestern Turkey, on the Yenice River.

Once a small hamlet, it has grown rapidly since the establishment of Turkey’s first major iron-and-steel complex there in 1940. The works were expanded greatly in the 1950s and ’60s. Facilities include a coking plant, blast furnaces, a foundry, and tube works; chemical plants produce sulfuric acid and phosphates. The mills receive coal and manganese by rail from Zonguldak and iron ore from the Divriği mines; dolomite and limestone are obtained locally. Karabük lies on the rail line between Ankara and Zonguldak and is linked by road with Ankara and Kastamonu. Pop. (2000) 100,749; (2013 est.) 110,537.

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