Time zone EET (UTC+2) Licence plate 53 Area 25 km² Area code 464 | Postal code 53 Climate Cfa Local time Sunday 3:10 PM | |
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Weather 10°C, Wind NE at 2 km/h, 76% Humidity | ||
İyidere is a town and district of Rize Province on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey, 14 km from the city of Rize.
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Formerly known as Aspet, İyidere is a green rural district. The local economy depends on growing and processing tea, plus some other farming and fishing.
Climate
İyidere has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa).
History
See Rize Province for the history of the area, once part of the trading network of the Ancient Greeks based in Miletos, who founded the port of İyidere, then part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the Empire of Trebizond until it was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Mehmet II in 1461.
References
İyidere Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA