İyidere

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Image:Rize Turkey Provinces locator.jpg
Location of İyidere within Turkey.
Coordinates: 40°99′N 40°33′E / 41.65, 40.55
Country Image:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey
Region Black Sea
Province Rize
Government
 - Mayor Ahmet Mete
Area
 - Total 25 km² (9.7 sq mi)
Population
 - Total 10,074
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 - Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code 53
Area code(s) (0090)+ 464
Licence plate 53
Website: http://www.iyidere.bel.tr/


İyidere is a town and a district of Rize Province on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey, 14km from the city of Rize.

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.

[edit] 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.

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