An overhead view of the city of Rize on the Turkish Black Sea coast
By Sam Topalidis
Pontic Historian and Ethnologist (2024)
Rize is a town on the Black Sea coast, 80 km (by road) east of Trabzon in north-east Türkiye (Pontos. The ancient Greeks established a colony at Rize sometime after 6th century BC, when the Greeks from the Black Sea port of Sinope had colonised Trabzon (400 km east of Sinope).
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