Trabzon

Trabzon which has a beautiful nature is also known with architectural and artistic structures. In addition, Trabzon which is the north-east of Turkey has a long harbor. The West of Trabzon is Giresun. The north of Trabzon is Rize. The south of Trabzon is drawn black sea. All color of green can be seen in this city. There are a lot of consecutive mountains and hills in the north of Trabzon. Some of these hills arrives sea and cause to be very steep. Besides, there are brooks in slope of mountains and sometimes, when the weather is so rainy, waterfalls can be seen in slope of mountains. For example, Fol and Zaaros are the most popular brooks in Trabzon. Before Christmas, in the first century strong Romes armies attacked Anatolians cities. The king of Rome who is Pompelius, to defeated the king of the Pontus who is fifth Mithridates in Kelkit valley. After this event, Pontus government was destroyed. Therefore, Before Christmas in sixty-six years, Trabzon had been controlled by Rome. In twenty-seven years, the empire of Rome of season had begun with Augustus arrangement. The result of Augustus managerial arrangement, Trabzon had been in a vassal which had been called Pontus Polemoniacus. In the king of the empire of Rome who is Neron, Trabzon was a free city between fifty-four and sixty-eight years. In these years, Trabzon had been called as a rich and popular city. When the empire of Rome is Vespasianus, Trabzon was in Kapadokya province. After these eventful years, Trabzon has been under Osmanl government control. Trabzon is not too much crowded. Generally, people who are living in Trabzon sell fish and cut tea. In summer, people cut and sell their tea in their farms. Therefore, some foreign people come to turkey and work in these farms. In winter people only fish and sell these fishes. Most of people in Trabzon are laz which is a race. Today, Laz people is losing their identify day by day. For example, Evliya elebi sad that people in Trabzon is a laz nation. Language in Trabzon was Pontus language and lazs language, so Turkish was very difficult for them. For example; balk means fish. People in Trabzon cannot say balk. They say paluk instead of balk because Trabzons people used to Greek alphabet. This alphabet does not contain b, -d, -g and I letters.

People in Trabzon have a different from other cities in Turkey. People have a lot of different clothes. For instance, petamba make womens hair to hide. It is also a religious item. Zipka which is a typical trousers, protect their under of body. People have a lot of cultural dances. These dances are very vivacious dances because generally in Trabzon, the weather is rainy, so they want to be warm and this causes to people dancing faster than other dances. Also, people sing song well in this city. There are many popular singers in Trabzon such as Volkan Konak, Kazm Koyuncu ve smail Trt. Weapon is the most common thing for people in Trabzon, but this is only a traditional item for them they only use their weapons in celebrities such as wedding ceremony. However, they can cause to having an accident. To illustrate, people in a wedding ceremony which was in a garden, people shouted to sky. In the same time, there was a fly and this fly was shouted by people in the wedding ceremony. After this event, the fly fall down, but nobody was damaged. Another example for weapon is that these people are from Rize. Three robbers wanted to pillage a bank and they entered bank sad that give us how much money there are. In this moment, there were eighteen costumers. When they saw robbers weapon, all of these people showed their weapons and robbers were arrested. There are too many foods in Trabzons cuisine. Generally, these foods contain fish, corn and cabbage. They do with fish whatever they want such as fish bread. They do soup with corn or cabbage. These foods can be eaten in all meal. They get so energy from these foods. This is the most important opportunity for them Trabzon has a long history, so this history gives them a big historical inheritance. Smela monastery, Ayasofya museum,Kaymakl monastery, Kzlar monastery, Gregorios Peristera monastery, Kzlar monastery, Vazelon monastery are the most popular historical buildings. In Trabzon, there are a lot of Turkish baths. In addition, there is a fantastic lake which is called uzun. Its mean is long. This lake is the world of seven wonderful . If you go to Trabzon, you should see smela monastery and uzun lake.