City Rize

City Rize

Rize is the capital of Rize Province in the eastern part of the Black Sea region of Turkey, on the Black Sea coast and has an area of ​​250 square kilometers.
It is the birthplace of the President of the Council of Turkish ambassadors (current) Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Risa about 79.8 km east of Trabzon Trabzon, also located 91.7 km from the city of Hopa Hopa very close to the Georgian border, only 18 km (Hoba located in the neighboring province of Artvin).
The nearest airport to the city Risa is the City Airport Tarabzonebenat City Risa on the slope of a mountain on the small bay on the Black Sea coast, on a narrow strip of flat land between the sea and behind the mountains, and it is so named, which means the side of the mountain This green sea shore (language Alaskitia area residents indigenous).

It also called as well for having the widest Menbstat in Turkey and has acquired vast expanses of tea plantations which resembles a carpet green extended to extend the length of the consideration, as it covers the production of this region consumption of Turkey's annual tea and exported the surplus remaining outside the country, and not surprisingly, the P Risa surrounded by fields dense of tea bushes which were so great that it can not see the surface of the earth and almost green shades for the beach and the areas of his successor is not

In addition to tea, the most important agricultural exports Risa main kiwi fruit Kiwi. Can not be completed without a visit to Risa password Castle Rise Rize Castle, which is located in the south-west of the city center.
The castle was founded on the normal height of 150 meters, it is believed that some parts of the walls of the castle was built during the reign of Alexius II Emperor Alexios II Trabzon was renovated in the Ottoman period

 

 

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