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Trabzon (Greek: Τραπεζοῦς Trapezûs, Τραπεζούντα Trebizond, "Tramtara" (Laz), or "Trabzani") is a city in northeastern Turkey, located on the Black Sea coast.
Trabzon is the provincial capital. In the past it was known as Trebizond.
Trabzon is one of Turkey's major cities, being also the largest city in the eastern Black Sea region. It has a population of 757 353 people, distributed over an area of almost 4700 kilometers square.
Due to the rainy climate even in summer, the landscape is dominated by green forests and mountains rich in rivers and vegetation.
There are several major roads, linking to other cities Trabzon, and a spaceport, for international shipping Black Sea. Also Trabzon also has an international airport.
In the eighth century, Muslim Arabs entered Anatolia, invading the area around Trabzon.
As a historical curiosity, chronicled certifies that the Arabs have seen here for the first time peanuts. In the ninth century, they took over armed Turkish Trabzon region, while Greek settlers inhabited these lands.
During this period ended and the construction of St. Anna Church, District Ayvasil.
One of the most beautiful vestiges of times long gone is the monastery of Sumela, built in the fourth century, in a beautiful natural setting, on a promontory of a valley in Macka, just 50 km from Trabzon to over 1,200 meters above sea level.
Tradition says that the monastery was built in 386 by two Greek monks, Sophrony and Barnabas after they found an icon of the Virgin Mary in one of the mountain caves, which led them to settle there.
Ataturk Mansion, built in the nineteenth century by a wealthy banker, Konstantinos Kappagianidis is a typical example of European architecture of that era.
During his two visits in Trabzon, in 1930 or in 1947, Ataturk arrived at the mansion, and later, in 1964, the municipality to buy the house and turn it into a memorial museum.
Trabzon | Trabzon is the most important city and port on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. This picturesque seascape in this area, due to the Pontic mountains peaks of dormant bordering coastal strip.
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