Karadeniz Ereğliball

Ereğliball is a city of. It was founded in 560 BC by Greek colonists from Megaraball as Heraclea Ponticaball. It then fell under Roman and Byzantine rule,until it was finally bought by Ottomanball in 1393,which starts its Turkification process. Coal was discovered here in 1829 which increased the cities importance. It was briefly occupied by Franceball during the Turkish War of Independence.After the war it became a part of Turkeyball ,the successor state to Ottomanball. The Erdemir coal and steel factory was founded here in 1960 and Alaplıball,which was one of the municipalities in Ereğliball,became its own district in 1987.