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Rize Province

Rize is a province

Provinces of Turkey

Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, called iller in Turkish language .A province is administered by an appointed governor , and was formerly termed a "governorate" ....
of north-east Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
, on the eastern Black Sea

Black Sea

Trabzon Province

Trabzon is a Provinces of Turkey of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Located in a strategically important region, Trabzon is one of the oldest trade port cities in Anatolia....
and Artvin

Artvin Province

Artvin is a Provinces of Turkey in Turkey, on the Black Sea coast in the north-eastern corner of the country, on the border with Georgia .The provincial capital is the city of Artvin....
. Its capital is the city of Rize
Rize

Rize is the capital of Rize Province, in northeast Turkey, on the Black Sea coast....
.

name comes from Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
(riza), meaning "mountain slopes". The Georgian

Georgian language

Georgian is the official language of Georgia , a country in the Caucasus .Georgian is the primary language of about 3.9 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad ....
name is ????, Laz

Laz language

The Laz language is spoken by the Laz people on the Southeast shore of the Black Sea. It is estimated that there are between around 30,000 native speakers of Laz in Turkey, in a strip of land extending from Melyat to the Georgian border , and about 2,000 in Georgia ....
name is Rizini and the Armenian

Armenian language

The 'Armenian language' is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenians. It is the official language of the Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh....
name is ????.

Geography
Rize is on the north side of the range of mountains that run along the Black Sea

Black Sea

The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
coast. Overlooking the sea this is the wettest corner of Turkey and Rize is the country's largest producer of tea.

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Rize is a province

Provinces of Turkey

Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, called iller in Turkish language .A province is administered by an appointed governor , and was formerly termed a "governorate" ....
of north-east Turkey

Turkey

Black Sea

Trabzon Province

Trabzon is a Provinces of Turkey of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Located in a strategically important region, Trabzon is one of the oldest trade port cities in Anatolia....
and Artvin

Artvin Province

Etymology

The name comes from Greek

Greek language

Georgian language

Laz language

Armenian language

The 'Armenian language' is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenians. It is the official language of the Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh....
name is ????.

Geography

Rize is on the north side of the range of mountains that run along the Black Sea

Black Sea

Çamlihemsin

?amlihemsin is a small town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey.With its mountains and valleys in all shades of green ?amlihemsin has a reputation as one of the most attractive parts of the eastern Black Sea region, particularly with the autumn foliage....
in particular is one of Turkey's most popular venues for trekking holidays. Within remote areas, roads are scarce and electrically powered cable car

Aerial tramway

An aerial tramway is a type of aerial lift in which a cabin is suspended from a Wire rope and is pulled by another cable.An aerial tramway is often called a cable car or ropeway, and sometimes incorrectly referred to as a gondola lift ....
s are used to transport people and supplies into the mountains. As well as tea, nowadays kiwi fruit are grown here too. Summers are cool (July average 22°C), winters are warm (January average 7°C) and it is wet all year round.

The new Black Sea coast road is making Rize more accessible, while drawing criticism for its effect on the wildlife of the coast, and from the early 2000s, Rize has seen an increase in visitors from outside the province, particularly those seeking to escape into the countryside. This increased tourism has raised concerns among locals that the traditional way of life and the unblemished character of the natural surroundings is under threat. The provincial governor, Enver Salihoglu (as of 2005) has stated his opposition to the expansion of the road network and has advocated a commercial focus on beekeeping, trout farming, and the growing of organic teas .

Native plants include: the Cherry Laurel

Cherry laurel

Prunus laurocerasus is a species in the genus Prunus, native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe, from Albania and Bulgaria east through Turkey to the Caucasus Mountains and northern Iran....
(Turkish taflan or karamyemis), the fruit of which is an edible small dark plum which leaves a dark stain on the mouth and teeth; bilberry

Bilberry

Bilberry is a name given to several species of low-growing shrubs in the genus Vaccinium that bears false berrys. The species most often referred to is Vaccinium myrtillus L., otherwise known as the European blueberry....
which are now being actively cultivated; and tea is not native of course but grows here very well and of the greatest pleasures in Rize is to enjoy a glass of the local brew made from mountain spring water.

Geology

Part of the Pontic Mountains

Pontic Mountains

The Pontic Mountains The range runs roughly east-west, parallel and close to the southern coast of the Black Sea. The highest peak in the range is Ka?kar Dagi, which rises to elevation....
(Eastern Black Sea Mts.), Rize was formed in the Palaeozoic period and then the valleys were eroded from the Cretaceous

Cretaceous

The Cretaceous , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide, is a geologic period from circa to million years ago . In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows on the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period....
period onwards.

History

Ancient history

We have little information as to the prehistory of this region, which being covered in thick forest is difficult to excavate and reveals little. The earliest records we have are of the Kulku or Kulha, an Asian community speaking an agglutinative language, the name being carved into a monument left by the Urartu

Urartu

Urartu was an Iron Age kingdom in Eastern Anatolia , rising to power in the mid 9th century BC, and finally conquered by Median Empire in the early 6th century BC....
king Sardur II, who conquered the area for his kingdom (765-735 BC).

Then in 714 BC a tribe of Cimmerians

Cimmerians

The Cimmerians or Kimmerians were ancient equestrian nomads who, according to Herodotus, originally inhabited the region north of the Caucasus and the Black Sea, in what is now Ukraine and Russia, in the 8th century BC and 7th century BC....
came to settle by the Çoruh River

Çoruh River

The ?oruh River or Ch'orokhi River starts in the Mescit Mountains in the north-eastern Turkey and flows into Georgia before it reaches the Black Sea....
, fleeing as their homeland in the Caucasus

Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region located between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is home to Europe's highest mountain ....
was overrun by the Saka

Saka

The Sakas or Sacae were a population of Central Asian nomadic tribes speaking an eastern Iranian languages language....
branch of the Scythians. The Cimmerians spread throughout Anatolia

Anatolia

Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
and still today there are many places named Kemer as a record of their presence, including some villages in Rize. The Saka meanwhile spread westwards into eastern Europe and in 680 BC defeated the last of the Cimmerians in Georgia (country)

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
, but they themselves were overturned by the Medes

Medes

The Medes were an Ancient Iranian peoples who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea ....
, who murdered the Saka King Madova in 626 BC. Following the departure of the Saka the area was occupied by various tribes of Turks

Turkish people

The Turkish people , also known as "Turks" are defined mainly as citizens of the Republic of Turkey. An early history text provided the definition of being a Turk as "any individual within the Republic of Turkey, whatever his faith who speaks Turkish, grows up with Turkish culture and adopts the Turkish ideal is a Turk." This ideal...
and Georgians

Georgians

The Georgians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus, the oldest group of the South Caucasian peoples people mainly centered in Georgia , but also living in Turkey, Russia, the United States, Iran, and other countries....
.

Antiquity

According to Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
, from 670 BC onwards the Aegean

Aegean Islands

The Aegean Islands are a group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south....
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
community of Miletus

Miletus

Miletus was an ancient city on the western coast of Anatolia , near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria. Evidence of first settlement at the site has been made inaccessible by the rise of sea level and deposition of sediments from the Maeander....
established a series of trading posts along the Black Sea coast; one of these was Rize

Rize

Rize is the capital of Rize Province, in northeast Turkey, on the Black Sea coast....
. Although this colony was always vulnerable to attacks from the Medes until the Persian armies were defeated by Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
. Following the death of Alexander a number of separate kingdoms were established in Anatolia

Anatolia

Bithynia

Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thrace Bosporus and the Euxine ....
and Cappadoccia and in this corner of the eastern Black Sea, Pontus

Pontus

Pontus or Pontos is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day northeastern Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region in Antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area, and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Pontos Euxeinos , or simply Pontos....
. Rize was brought into the Kingdom of Pontus by Pharnaces

Pharnaces I of Pontus

Pharnaces I , List of Kings of Pontus king of Pontus, was the son of Mithridates III of Pontus, who he succeeded on the throne.. The date of his accession cannot be fixed with certainty; but it is certain, at least, that he was on the throne before 183 BC, in which year he succeeded in reducing the important city of Sinop, Turkey, which ha...
in 180BC.

The kingdom was absorbed into the Roman Empire

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
between 10 AD and 395 AD, when it passed to the Byzantines. By this time writers including Pliny

Pliny the Elder

Arrian

File:Flavius_Arrianus.jpgLucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon , known in English as Arrian , and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Ancient Rome historian , a public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the Roman and Byzantine Greece period....
were describing the inhabitants as Laz

Laz people

The Laz are an ethnic group who live primarily on the Black Sea coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia . One of the chief tribes of ancient kingdom of Colchis, the Laz were initially Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church, most of whom converted to Sunni Islam during Ottoman rule of Caucasus in the 16th century....
.

Medieval

During the whole medieval period those terRitories were under Byzantynian rule and held a majotity Greek population.

The high country above Rize however was always in flux and as late as 626 AD a tribe of Scythians, having been moved from their settlements further east by the Persians, came to settle in the area that is today's district of Hemsin

Hemsin

Hemsin is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey, 57km from the city of Rize.Hemsin is a district of green hills 19 km inland from the Black Sea....
.

A short period of Turkish domination in the region took part in the late 11th century, following the defeat of the Byzantines at the Battle of Malazgirt, and the Çoruh River

Çoruh River

The ?oruh River or Ch'orokhi River starts in the Mescit Mountains in the north-eastern Turkey and flows into Georgia before it reaches the Black Sea....
. It was then incorporated into one of the Anatolian Turkish Beyliks

Anatolian Turkish Beyliks

Image:Anadolu Beylikleri.pngAnatolian Beyliks or Turkmen Beyliks were small Turkey emirates or Muslim principalities governed by Beys, which were founded across Anatolia at the end of the 11th century in a first period, and more extensively during the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate of R?m during the second half of the 13th century....
following the defeat of the Georgian Kingdom at the siege of Posof

Posof

Posof is a district of Ardahan Province of Turkey, in the far east of the country, on the border with Georgia , 75km from the city of Ardahan....
in 1080.

Large numbers of Turks coming to settle along the coast, including a large influx of Kipchak Turks. But it was still mainly a Greek speaking region. The area was recaptured by the Byzantines in 1098 during the Crusades

Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious war waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal opponents. Crusades were fought mainly against Muslims, though campaigns were also directed against Paganism Slavic peoples, Jews, Eastern Orthodox Church, Mongols, Catharism, Hussites, Waldensians, Old Prussians, and political enemi...
and later following the sack of Constantinople

Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
in the Fourth Crusade

Fourth Crusade

The Fourth Crusade was originally designed to conquer Islam Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, in April 1204, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and conquered the Christianity city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire....
of 1204, the Byzantine Imperial family itself removed to nearby Trabzon

Trabzon

Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon, located on the historical Silk Road became a melting pot of religions, languages and culture for centuries and a trade gateway to Iran in the southeast, Russia and the Caucasus to the northeast....
establishing the Empire of Trebizond

Empire of Trebizond

The Empire of Trebizond , founded in April 1204, was one of three Byzantine Empire successor states of the Byzantine Empire. However, the creation of the Empire of Trebizond was not directly related to the capture of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade, rather it had broken away from the Byzantine Empire a few weeks prior to that event....
, of which Rize was part.

However, the area had been largely settled by Turks and this community remained, the Byzantines merely keeping a base in Rize.

The Turkish era

The Turks in the area were from various tribes in Anatolia, all under the Seljuk umbrella but with varying degrees of loyalty and contentment; there were numerous rebellions and uprisings. This era ended when the Empire of Trebizond began paying tribute to the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
in 1456 and then the Ottoman army led by Sultan Mehmet II entered Trabzon in 1461. Rize fell in 1470, the last gasp of the Roman Empire.

The province was a site of battles between Ottoman and Russian

Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
armies during Caucasus Campaign

Caucasus Campaign

The Caucasus Campaign comprised armed conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, later including the Democratic Republic of Armenia, Central Caspian Dictatorship, and the British Empire as part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I or alternatively part of the Caucasian Front during World War I....
of World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
and was occupied by the Russian forces in 1916-1918. It was returned to the Ottomans with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, at Brest-Litovsk between the Russian SFSR and the Central Powers, marking Russia's exit from World War I....
in 1918.

From 1924 onwards, Rize has been a province of the Republic of Turkey. Slowly the Greek names of the villages and districts are being replaced with Turkish (Pilihoz is now Dumankaya, Mapavri is Çayeli

Çayeli

?ayeli is a town and district of Rize Province on the Black Sea coast of eastern Turkey, 18 km east of the city of Rize.?ay means tea in Turkish language and a large percentage of Turkey's tea is indeed grown in this lush green district....
etc.). However the old names are still in common usage, especially among the older generations, and can be seen on shop signs, taxi ranks and elesewhere, while other names from the Pontus era (such as Askoroz, Peripol and of course Rize itself) are still in use.

Until tea was planted here in the 1940s this was a poor area at the far end of the country, with only the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
beyond the Iron Curtain

Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain was the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991....
. Many generations of Rize people left to look for jobs in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
or overseas.

Life in Rize today

The city of Rize

Rize

Rize is the capital of Rize Province, in northeast Turkey, on the Black Sea coast....
itself is a quiet country town on the coast, on a narrow strip of flat land between the mountains and the sea. Today the area is wealthier although there is a marked difference between the lifestyle of the people in the relatively wealthy city of Rize and those in the remote villages where wooden houses perch on the steep mountainside with the rain beating down. The province is known in Turkey for the production of Rize Tea

Rize Tea

Rize tea or ?ay is a form of black tea. Produced in Rize Province on the eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey which has a mild climate with high precipitation and fertile soil, it is crystal clear and mahogany in color....
. Rize province is the birthplace of Turkish Prime-Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a Turkey Politics of Turkey, a former List of mayors of Istanbul of Istanbul and the List of Prime Ministers of Turkey of the Republic of Turkey since 14 March, 2003....
.

Culture

Cuisine

Traditional cuisine in the city quite rich and the anchovy

Anchovy

The anchovies are a Family of small, common salt-water fish. There are about 140 species in 16 genera, found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans....
forms the basic for many of the dishes peculiar to the region. Soups, salad

Salad

Salad is a mixture of cold or hot foods, usually including vegetables and/or fruits, often with a dressing, occasionally nuts or croutons, and sometimes with the addition of meat, fish, pasta, cheese, eggs, or whole grains....
s, pilaf

Pilaf

Pilaf, also called polao, pilau, or pulao, is a dish in which a grain, such as rice or cracked wheat, is browned in oil, and then cooked in a seasoned broth....
s and eve desserts are made of anchovy. Some of the local dishes are hamsi bugulama (boiled anchovy), hamsi stew, and kamsi köfte (anchovy meatballs). Lahana çorbasi (cabbage

Cabbage

The cabbage is a leafy garden plant of the Family Brassicaceae , used as a Leaf vegetable. It is a herbaceous, biennial plant, dicotyledonous flowering plant distinguished by a short stem upon which is crowded a mass of leaves, usually green but in some varieties red or purplish, forming a characteristic compact, globular cluster ....
soup), muhlama (made of cheese

Cheese

Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cattle, Water Buffalo, goats, or sheep's milk. It is produced by Coagulation of the milk protein casein....
, cornmeal and butter

Butter

Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermentation cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying....
) and pide

PIDE

The Pol?cia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado or PIDE , was the main tool of Political repression used by the authoritarian regime of Ant?nio de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal, the Estado Novo ....
s (pita

Pita

Pita is an often round, brown, wheat flatbread made with yeast.Similar to other double-layered flatbread or pocket breads, pita is traditional in many Middle Eastern cuisine and Mediterranean cuisines....
bread topped with various fillings) are also other local delicacies)

Folk dances and traditional costumes

Folk dancers perform horon energetically when it is acoompanied by kemenche

Kemenche

A kemenche is a bottle-shaped, 3-string bowed lute that resembles the Byzantine lyra and the Persian Kamanche. Found in the Black Sea region of Asia Minor, it is also known as the "kementche of Laz people"....
. However this folk dance

Folk dance

File:Mugham Festival 2008.jpgFolk dance is a term used to describe a large number of dances, mostly of European origin, that tend to share the following attributes:...
can also be accompanied by tulum

Tulum

Tulum is the site of a Pre-Columbian Maya civilization Defensive wall serving as a major port for Cob?.The ruins are located on 39-foot cliffs, along the east coast of the Yucat?n Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico....
or kaval

Kaval

"Kaval" is also the ring name of professional wrestler Brandon Silvestry.The kaval is a chromatic end-blown flute traditionally played throughout Azerbaijan, Turkey, Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, southern Serbia , northern Greece , southern Romania , and Armenia ....
. Folk dancers wear traditional costumes while performing horon. Men wear shirt, vest, jacket, zipka (pants made of wool

Wool

Wool is the fiber derived from the specialized skin cells, called follicles, of animals in the Caprinae family, principally domestic sheep, but the hair of certain species of other Mammalia such as cashmere goat, llamas, rabbits and keeshonds may also be called wool....
and gathered at knees) and black boots. On their jackets are silver embroideries, amulet

Amulet

An amulet , a close cousin of the talisman consists of any object intended to bring good luck and/or protection to its owner.Potential amulets include: Gemstone or simple Gemstone, statues, coins, drawings, pendants, jewelry ring, plants, animals, etc.; even words said in certain occasions?for example: vade retro satana?, to repe...
s hemayils with religion expressions put inside these small silver

Silver

Silver is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal....
containers to br protected against evil's eye. On the other hand, women dancers wear colorful dresses and traditional hand painted head scarves including various motifs.

Handicrafts

Rize offers a rich variety of traditional handicarfts and handmade souvenirs to visitors. Some of theM. Copper works, wicker baskets, churn

Churn

A churn is a container or machine used to mix or agitate a product, for example, a butter churn, to Churning , or a churn for mixing beverages. Used as a verb, churn refers not only to the use of such a machine, but also to extended metaphorical connotations, including: 1) a sense of continual labored stirring or cranking , 2) roiling, s...
, socks, shoulder bag, spoon made of boxwood

Boxwood

Boxwood may refer to:* Boxwood , a genus of about 70 species in the family Buxace?* Boxwood Public School, a school located in Markham, Ontario...

Districts

Rize province is divided into 12 districts

Districts of Turkey

The Provinces of Turkey of Turkey are divided into 957 districts . In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the qadaa....
(capital district in bold):

Ardesen
Ardesen

Ardesen is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey, 48km along the coast road from the city of Rize....
Çamlihemsin
Çamlihemsin

?amlihemsin is a small town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey.With its mountains and valleys in all shades of green ?amlihemsin has a reputation as one of the most attractive parts of the eastern Black Sea region, particularly with the autumn foliage....
Çayeli
Çayeli

?ayeli is a town and district of Rize Province on the Black Sea coast of eastern Turkey, 18 km east of the city of Rize.?ay means tea in Turkish language and a large percentage of Turkey's tea is indeed grown in this lush green district....
Derepazari
Derepazari

Derepazari is a town and district of Rize Province on the Black Sea coast of Turkey between the cities of Rize and Trabzon....
Findikli
Findikli

Findikli is a town and district of Rize Province on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, east of the city of Rize....
Güneysu
Güneysu

G?neysu is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey, inland from the city of Rize....
Hemsin
Hemsin

Hemsin is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey, 57km from the city of Rize.Hemsin is a district of green hills 19 km inland from the Black Sea....
Ikizdere
Ikizdere

Ikizdere is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey....
Iyidere
Iyidere

Iyidere is a town and district of Rize Province on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey, 14 km from the city of Rize.Formerly known as Aspet, Iyidere is a green rural district....
Kalkandere
Kalkandere

Kalkandere is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey, west of the city of Rize.Formerly known as Karadere, this is a hilly, forested, rural area of scattered villages, inland from the Black Sea coast....
Pazar
Pazar

Pazar is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey, 37 km east of the city of Rize.Etymology...
Rize
Rize

Rize is the capital of Rize Province, in northeast Turkey, on the Black Sea coast....

Places of interest

Rize is a province of great natural beauty, sites of particular interest include:

Ayder - A yayla (high meadow) area with hot springs, hotels and restaurants, and from here you can climb up to higher and more remote meadows and villages.
Çamlik - riverside area of forest park
Firtina Vadisi - the valley is now a protected site of natural beauty
Ovit
Ovit

Hovit is a town in the Shirak of Armenia.References *...
- mountain pass on the Erzurum
Erzurum

Erzurum is a List of cities in Turkey in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. The name "Erzurum" derives from "Arz-u R?m" .Erzurum has a population of 361,235 ....
road in Ikizdere, 2640 m, forest and mountain viewpoint
The village and waterfall of Palovit, high in the mountains.
Avup Dagi, the mountain between Rize and Çamlihemsin
Çamlihemsin

?amlihemsin is a small town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey.With its mountains and valleys in all shades of green ?amlihemsin has a reputation as one of the most attractive parts of the eastern Black Sea region, particularly with the autumn foliage....
, between Firtina Deresi and Ortaköy Deresi. There are four Byzantine castles perched high on rocks on the mountainside including;
Kale-i Balâ and Zilkale
Zilkale

Zilkale is a medieval castle located in the Firtina Valley , and is one of the most important historical works in the ?amlihemsin region of Rize....

Other buildings of note include:

The watch tower, Kiz Kalesi on the sea front in Pazar
Pazar

Pazar is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey, 37 km east of the city of Rize.Etymology...
.

Sea also

Kackar
Limanköy, Çayeli
Limanköy, Çayeli

Limank?y is a township in ?ayeli district of Rize Province province on the Black Sea coast of eastern Turkey, 6 km west of the town of ?ayeli. Limank?y is in the east of B?y?k Caferpasa, in the south of Demirhisar and Akpinar.It is the largest neighborhood in ?ayeli....

Rize Province

Etymology

Geography

Geology

History

Ancient history

Antiquity

Medieval

The Turkish era

Life in Rize today

Culture

Cuisine

Folk dances and traditional costumes

Handicrafts

Districts

Places of interest

Sea also

External links