Place:Rize, Turkey

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NameRize
Alt namesRizesource: Wikipedia
Ṙizesource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 541
Ṙize provincesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeProvince
Coordinates41.0°N 41.0°E
Located inTurkey
See alsoKaradeṅiz kıiyıisıi,removed name of Region
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Ardesen
Cagrankaya
Pazar
Rize
İk̇izdere
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Rize Province is a province of northeast Turkey, on the eastern Black Sea coast between Trabzon and Artvin. The province of Erzurum is to the south. It was formerly known as Lazistan, the designation of the term of Lazistan was officially banned in 1926, by patriots. The capital is the city of Rize.

The province is home to Laz, Hemshin, Turkish people and Georgian communities. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spent his early childhood in Rize, where his father was a member of the Turkish Coast Guard, and from which both of Erdogan's parents come from.

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