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Coordinates region | TR |
Subdivision type | Country |
Subdivision name | |
Timezone | EET |
Utc offset | +2 |
Map caption | Location of Giresun within Turkey. |
Timezone dst | EEST |
Utc offset dst | +3 |
Official name | Giresun |image_skyline | image_caption |image_blank_emblem Giresunbel.JPG | blank_emblem_type Symbol of Giresun Municipality | |image_map Giresun Turkey Provinces locator.gif |
Image map1 | Giresun.svg |
Map caption1 | Map of the provincial capital of Giresun Province | subdivision_type1Region| subdivision_name1 Black Sea |subdivision_type2Province| subdivision_name2 Giresun |
population urban | 96,948 |population_footnotes |population_as_of 2010 |population_footnotes |population_density_km2 |area_total_km2 317|elevation_m 10|latd 40 |latm 54 |latNS N |longd 38 |longm 25 |longEW E |postal_code_typePostal code| postal_code 28x xx |area_code 0454 |blank_info 28|blank_nameLicence plate| |leader_titleMayor| |leader_name Kerim Aksu (CHP) |website http://www.giresun.bel.tr/ }} |
Giresun (; , ) is the provincial capital of Giresun Province in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about west of the city of Trabzon.
The English word cherry, French cerise, Spanish cereza, and Southern Italian dialect cerasa (standard Italian ciliegia) all come from Classical Greek κερασός "cherry tree", which has been identified with Cerasus. The cherry was first exported to Europe from Cerasus in Roman times, according to Pliny by Lucullus.
There is a beach, plenty of bars and in general a more relaxed attitude to alcohol (strictly beer and rakı) and dress code than in most places along the Black Sea coast, so at weekends you will find visitors from nearby Ordu and Trabzon in the bars and nightclubs. The town has high schools and hospitals, and Giresun University was founded in 2006 although it will take time to become properly established.
The cuisine represents typical Black Sea region dishes such as Mais Bread/Misir Ekmegi, Pancar Çorbası/Beet Soup, Beet Rice/Pancar Diblesi, Pezük Rice/Pezük Diblesi, and lots of dishes prepared with different local vegetables, anchovies (anchovy pie is the most famous one), Guymak [mais cooked in butter with cheese], etc. The local minced beef pide, is very popular and traditionally prepared for every Sunday brunch.
Like everywhere else on the Black Sea coast it rains (and often snows in winter) and is very humid throughout the year, with a lack of extreme temperatures both in summer and winter. As a result Giresun and the surrounding countryside is covered by luxuriant flora. As soon as you get beyond the city buildings you get into the hazelnut growing area and the high pastures (yayla) further in the mountains are gorgeous.
Snowfall is quite common between the months of December and March, snowing for a week or two, and it can be heavy once it snows.
The water temperature, like in the rest of the Black Sea coast of Turkey, is always cool and fluctuates between 8° and 20°C throughout the year.
The victory of Alexios II over the Turkmen ‘Koustoganes" at Kerasus in September 1301 was vitally important. If Kerasus had fallen in 1301, the Turkmen would have obtained major access to the sea and the days of the Trapezuntine Empire would have been numbered. After 1301, Alexios II built a fortress which overlooks the sea.
4.2 km east-northeast of Kerasus is a fortified island called Ares (Αρητιας νήσος or Αρεώνησος). It was here according to Apollonius of Rhodes , that the Argonauts encountered both the Amazons and a flock of vicious birds. The Greeks of the island held out against the Ottomans for 7 years after the fall of Trapezus 1461.
With the start of Ottoman rule, many Greeks fled to nearby Russia whilst many also fled to the mountainous interior of Asia Minor.
Category:Populated places in Giresun Province Category:Populated places established in the 2nd century BC Category:Black Sea port cities and towns in Turkey Category:Ancient Greek cities Category:Pontus
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