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Rize
Rize (Greek language|Greek: ''Riza'',Geography
The city is built around a small bay on the Black Sea coast, on a narrow strip of flat land between the sea and the mountains behind. The coastal strip is being expanded with landfill and the city is growing up the steep hillsides away from the coast. Rize enjoys a mild, extremely wet climate, vulnerable to storms coming off the Black Sea and therefore the surrounding countryside is rich with vegetation and is attracting more and more visitors every year.
Rize is a center for processing and shipping the tea grown in the surrounding area. Tea was introduced in the region in the 1940's and 1950's, changing the region's destiny, which was deperately poor until then. The city has a tea research institute founded in 1958 and tea gardens are the main sight in the town's panoramic view. Tea and kiwifruit plants are even planted in gardens around the town. The secondary activity is fishing. Rize is linked by road with Trabzon (41 miles km west), Hopa (55 miles km east, on the Georgia (country)| Georgian border, and Erzurum (north). The nearest airport is in Trabzon.
Rize is a quiet town, a typical Turkish provincial capital with little in the way of night life or enetertainment. However the border with Georgia has been open since the early 90's, the Black Sea coast road has been widened and Rize is now wealthier than in previous decades; there are more cars in the streets, higher buildings on the sea front, and some places for young people to go are opening up now. The visitors to the surrounding countryside also contribute to the economy of the town.
Mountains
Notable mountains
- Kaçkar (3.251 m)
- Barut (3.251 m)
- Ziglat (3.511 m)
- Verçenik (3.711 m)
- Hipot (3.560 m)
Rivers
From east to the west
- Fındıklı Deresi (Laz language|Laz: ''Viçe abja'')
- Büyükdere
- Pazar Suyu
- Karadere
- İyidere or (Greek language|Greek: ''Kalopotamos'')
Economy
The economic structure of Rize is based primarily around its geographic location. Rize is a very mountainous city, making industrial development difficult and impractical. Given the lack of air and rail transit, most goods have to travel by truck or ship, which makes exporting and importing more difficult. Rize's primary trading partner is Trazbon, the most developed city of northeast Black Sea region. Rize's main exports are agriculturally based; tea and kiwi fruit are among its most popular commodities.
Education
Rize University was founded in 2006. It consists of the following faculties:
Merkez Milli Piyango Egitim Kampusu - Milli Piyango Teacher's College Central Campus
Ilahiyat Kampusu - Theology Campus
Egtitim Fakultesi (Cayeli/Rize) - Cayeli Tezcher's College Campus
Rize Meslek Yuksekokulu - Rize Vocational High School
Findiklı Meslek Yuksekokulu (Findiklı/Rize) - Findikli Vocational High School
Ardesen Meslek Yuksekokulu (Ardesen/Rize) - Ardesen Vocational High School
As of 2007, the university was also building a Faculty of Medicine.
History
See '''Rize Province''' for the history of the area.
Notable natives
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan The Turkish Prime Minister spent his childhood in Rize
- Mesut Yılmaz - politician and former prime minister
- İsmail Türüt - Singer of folk music of the Black Sea region
- Erol Evgin singer, spent his childhood summers with his grandparents in Rize
- The ship-owning Kalkavan family
- Ahmet Tevfik İleri - politician and former deputy prime minister
- Fahri Tatan - football player
- Kazım Ayvaz - Olympic medalist and world champion in wrestling
- Mehmet Akif Pirim - Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling
- Temel Kotil - aeronautical engineer and CEO of Turkish Airlines
- Zafer Biryol - football player
- Davut Güloglu pop singer and musician, born in Rize in 1972
- Besim Tibuk, businessman and Liberal Democratic Party (Turkey) | Liberal Democrat politician, born in Rize in 1945.
- Sinan Özen singer,
- Hülya Polat Black Sea folk singer
- Köksal Toptan Politician, Speaker of Parliament
Çaykur Rizespor, the local football team, play in the Turkish Super League and are local heroes, occasionally capable of defeating even the big Istanbul teams. They play in green and blue, reflecting the blue of the sea and the green of the tea growing on the hillsides.
Others who have never lived in Rize but come from Rize families include:
- Tarkan the Turkish pop star
- Asena television's best-known belly dancer
- Murat Karayalçın Politician, leader of the Social Democratic People's Party (Turkey) |SHP
- Yaşar Okuyan journalist and nationalist politician
Population figures
Notes
References
- Özhan Öztürk (2005). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Black Sea. 2 Cilt. Heyamola Yayıncılık. İstanbul. ISBN 975-6121-00-9
External links
- Travel Rize
- Rize image gallery
Category:Ancient Greek cities
Category:Port cities in Turkey|Rize
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