•Amisous : colony of Miletus 7th cent BC
•Fertile ground and
shallow waters : ideal combination
•Between two main
rivers : Kizilirmak : red river (Halys) and Yseilirmak (green river, Iris)
•Tekkekoy : if you dig a
little, you will find bones (mass graves) : none of the authorities showed any
interest. There are 4 ruined churches in the village. The primary school built
on the main church
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•Unye (Oenoe)
history back to Hittites, castle from Pontus era
•Bolaman : from Polemon, the aristocrat from
Laodikeia (Denizli) who was appointed
King of Pontus and central Anatolia by Augustus
•Prominent Castle .
Most inhabitants Alevis
•At the tip, Cape
Yasun, there was a temple
of Jason protecting the sailors, now a church
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•Ordu (Cotyora), hazelnuts, some
Greeks left behind
•Giresun (Kerasous, Pharnakia, Choerades) producer of hazelnuts,
cherries first
exported in roman times. High pastures = yayla
•Colonists from Sinope, ruined Byzantine
castle, island called Aretias- the only island in
Black Sea, island sacred to amazons, had temple to Ares,
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•Kesap (Kassiope), had 600 Greeks, area has an abandoned argentiferous lead mine
•Tirebolu (Tripolis) west of Harsit river (Harsiotis), by Milesians in 656 BC,
•Ruins of a monastery
on Hac dagi mt.
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•Gorele (Koralla), Genoese named it
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•Akcakale = white castle,
•Akcaabat(= abundance of
money) (Platana) famous dance called horonu, Miletos colony, Ermonassa
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