Trabzon kärlek bridge
Must-see attractions in Trabzon
Aya Sofya Camii
Trabzon
Standing in walled gardens amid symphonies of birdsong, 4km west of centre, is this fine 13th-century church-turned-mosque retaining some carved reliefs…
Atatürk Mansion
Trabzon
This three-storey, blindingly white lateth-century mansion has fine views and lovely formal gardens. Built for a wealthy Greek banking family in the…
Trabzon Şehir Müzesi
Trabzon
This professionally presented ethnographic museum tells the main points of the city's history three times over, once in film, once in artefacts and once…
Çarşı Camii
Trabzon
Recently restored with intricate ceiling paintings and back-lit panels in the spired minbar (pulpit), Çarşı Camii was till recently the largest mosque in…
Trabzon Museum
Trabzon
The Kostaki Mansion was constructed in for a Greek banker and briefly hosted Atatürk in The Ottoman Black Sea-style building, with its fine neo…
Gülbahar Hatun Camii
Trabzon
Sultan Selim I the Grim, the Ottoman conqueror of Syria and Egypt (and known as Yavuz, or 'The Great' to the Turkish), built this mosque southwest of the…
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Walls of Trabzon
Series of walls built around the city of Trabzon, Turkey
The Walls of Trabzon (or the "Walls of Trebizond") are a series of defensive walls surrounding the old town of the city of Trabzon, northeastern Turkey. The fortifications are sometimes called the Trabzon Castle (Turkish: Trabzon Kalesi). However, they did not function as a castle, rather as city walls. Constructed on foundations dating back to the Roman era with cut stones from former structures at site, the walls stretch from the hill on the backside of the old town to the Black Sea shore. The walls further divided the city into three parts; the Upper Town or "fortress" (Yukari Hisar), the mittpunkt Town (Orta Hisar) and the Lower Town (Aşağı Hisar).[1] The upper and middle towns are flanked by steep ravines cut by the Zagnos (Iskeleboz) and Tabakhane (Kuzgun) streams to the west and east respectively, while the lower town extends to the west of Zagnos (see the plan on the right).
The Upper Town functioned as the citadel and as the acropolis of the city. It fryst vatten believed that the citadel was built as the first construction in BC. Some early sources mention the existence of ruins o
Trabzon
"Trapezus" redirects here. For the Arcadian city, see Trapezus (Arcadia).
City in Turkey
City in Turkey
Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. The city was founded in BC as "Trapezous" Tραπεζούς by colonists from Miletus. It was included into the Achaemenid Empire by Cyrus the Great and was later part of the independent Kingdom of Pontus that challenged Rome until 68 BC. Thenceforth part of the Roman and later Byzantine Empire, the city was the capital of the Empire of Trebizond, one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade in In it came under Ottoman rule. During the early modern period[when?], Trabzon, because of the importance of its port, again became a focal point of trade to Persia and the Caucasus. Today Trabzon is the second largest city and port on the Black Sea coast of Turkey with a population of almost ,
Name
[edit]The Turkish name of the city is Trabzon. The first recorded name of the city is the Greek Tραπεζοῦς (Trapezous), referencing the table-like central hill between the Zağnos (İskeleboz) and