Ordu is a port on the Black Sea coast of Turkey and the capital city of Ordu Province. "Ordu" means 'army' in the Turkish language. It comes from the same root Turkic word as 'Urdu', the national language of modern-day Pakistan. The name may have been given because in the 15th century the city was a headquarters of the Ottoman Empire army . Artefacts dating back to 15,000 BC have been found in the area, but the city of Ordu was founded in the 8th century BC as Cotyora, one of a string of colonies along the Black Sea coast established by the Ancient Greek Aegean city of Miletos. Until 1800 Ordu was a small port mainly populated by...more »