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Güvenç Abdal, a dervish of Hacı Bektaş Velî, settled in the 13th century in Taşlıca village of Kürtün, Gümüşhane, founded a lodge and Islamized the Black Sea Çepni people. The tomb holding his body is at the Hacıbektaş (Nevşehir) complex; however a makam attributed to him, visited locally, stands at the Güvende highland in Kürtün. (Source: Hacı Bektaş Velî Velâyetnâmesi; Ministry of Culture and Tourism.)
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