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Çorum, Turkey

Çorum Clock Tower

Çorum, Turkey

Çorum Clock Tower
Photo: HALUK COMERTEL · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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The Çorum Clock Tower rises 27.5 metres in the Central district of Çorum province, Turkey, a product of late Ottoman architecture built by Seven-Eight Hasan Pasha. Historical sources disagree on its completion date—the Provincial Culture and Tourism Directorate and scholar Meltem Cansever place it in 1894, while historian Hakkı Acun argues for 1896. The cylindrical tower, measuring 3.9 metres in diameter, stands as a surviving monument to Ottoman civic infrastructure and timekeeping in the nineteenth century.

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Type
clock tower, historic site
Place
Çorum, Turkey

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