Yenikent (formerly Gürsüfet)Yenikent, nisanyanmap.com. is a village in Gerze District of Sinop Province, Turkey.Köy , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 839 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).Law No. 6360, Official Gazette, 6 December 2012 . It is on Turkish state highway D.010 which connects Sinop to Samsun. Distance to Gerze is . The former name of the settlement refers to people who escaped from Georgia during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). The settlement was declared a seat of township in 1990. But because of emigration to cities the population of the town has since been decreased.
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