References

1. Some of my grandfather Hoca Hüsnü Karakullukçu’s letters in Greek and Ottoman Turkish that were passed to my father Temel Karakullukçu.
2.  A booklet about our village by Orhan Karakullukçu, published in 1998
3. A history of Torul-Kurtun by Adnan Güngör Üçüncüoğlu, Notes from a book entitled The Last Istavris
4. Notes from conversations I had with village elders.   (Cemal-İhsan and Ziya Karakullukçu, Sabahattin Sönmez, İsmet Moğol, Orhan-Yılmaz Karakullukçu)
5. Books and articles published in Turkey and Greece.
6. İlhan Öztürk (notes of Rüşen Zeki Öztürk)
7. The Pontus and the right claims of its Greek Population. Topographical, Ethnographical and Historical Study, With two maps and various statistics by D.Economides.
8. The archives of Istavri (Stavriots) D.K.Papadopulos   
9. Charitable foundations set up in Gümüşhane and its vicinity during the Ottoman period.     Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsmail Kıvrım
10. Prof. Dr. Kemal Saylan and Prof. Dr.Bayram Nazır on the history of Gümüşhane
11. Crypto Christians in the Ottoman period, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Türkan 
12. Kurum Valley Stream Basins and Settlements, R. Kandemir
13. Gümüşhane, What Happened in the History and the Details in the Ottoman Archive Documents Murat Dursun Tosun   
14. Crypto Christians      Yorgo Andreadis
15. Sacae/Scythians by Bahtiyar Aydın
16. Gümüşhane in Ottoman Archive Documents, History and Details by Murat Dursun Tosun
17. National State of Anatolia, Pontos, Mahmut Goloğlu
18. Anabasis/The return of the tens of thousands, Xenephon
19. History of Herodotus, BC. 430
20. The Geography of Strabo M.Ö.35
21. XV. – XVI. Social and Economic Life in Trabzon Sanjak for Centuries. Hanefi Bostan Turkish Historical Societ