Rize Province (Turkish: Rize ili) is a province of northeast Turkey, on the eastern Black Sea coast between Trabzon and Artvin. The province of Erzurum is to the south. Its area is 3,835 km2,[2] and its population is 344,016 (2022).[1] The capital is the city of Rize. It was formerly known as Lazistan, however the designation of the term of Lazistan was officially banned in 1926.[3]
The province is home to Laz, Hemshin, Turkish and Georgian communities.[4][5]
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RizeProvince (Turkish: Rize ili) is a province of northeast Turkey, on the eastern Black Sea coast between Trabzon and Artvin. The province of Erzurum...
Sea Region of Turkey. It is the seat of RizeProvince and Rize District. Its population is 119,828 (2021). Rize is a typical Turkish provincial capital...
Rize tea (Turkish: Rize çayı) is the black tea used for Turkish tea. Produced in RizeProvince of Turkey which has a mild climate with high precipitation...
central district bears the name of the province (e.g. the city/district of Rize is the central district of RizeProvince). In the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding...
Rize District (also: Merkez, meaning "central") is a district of the RizeProvince of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Rize. Its area is 253 km2, and its...
the tea produced in Turkey has been Rize tea, a terroir from RizeProvince on the Eastern Black Sea coast. Rize has a mild climate with high precipitation...
İkizdere. Her father Abidin Kumbasar (b. 1932), the son of a family from Rize, is a professor of internal medicine and cardiology. Kumbasar has a younger...
Kobal's father was a civil engineer. Both of her parents are from Pazar, Rize. She has a brother named Kerem. At the age of four years, Sinem Kobal began...
The Pontic Mountains or Pontic Alps (Turkish: Kuzey Anadolu Dağları, meaning North Anatolian Mountains) form a mountain range in northern Anatolia, Turkey...
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Greek colonies of the Tauric Chersonesos, and for a brief time the Roman province of Asia. After a long struggle with Rome in the Mithridatic Wars, Pontus...
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Armenians, Assyrians and other Ottoman Greeks, the Greeks of Trebizond province suffered a genocide at the beginning of the 20th century, first by the...
town (belde) in the Rize District, RizeProvince, Turkey. Its population is 2,263 (2021). Unlike much of the mountainous RizeProvince, it is in a relatively...
Ayder is a yayla in RizeProvince, Turkey. Ayder is the Hemshin word for "fields." Ayder at 40°57′N 41°05′E / 40.950°N 41.083°E / 40.950; 41.083 is...
Turkey's Artvin Province and Central Asia. The Western or Rize Hamsheni are a related, geographically separate group living in RizeProvince, who spoke Homshetsi...
is Samsun. Other big cities are Zonguldak, Trabzon, Ordu, Tokat, Giresun, Rize, Amasya and Sinop. It is bordered by the Marmara Region to the west, the...
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