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| Town | |
 Location of Fındıklı within Turkey. | |
| Country |  Turkey |
| Region | Black Sea |
| Province | Rize |
| Area | |
| • District | 394.96 km (152.49 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Urban | Template:Turkey district populations |
| • District | Template:Turkey district populations |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 53 |
| Area code | (0090)+ 464 |
| Licence plate | 53 |
Fındıklı (Laz: ვიწე/Vi3'e; Georgian: ვიწე/Vi3'e) is a town and district of Rize Province on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, east of the city of Rize.
Etymology
The town was formerly known as Vitze which some claims that means twig or branch in the Laz language and was renamed Fındıklı after the hazelnuts that were grown here, (although these have now mostly been replaced with tea). Scholar Özhan Öztürk claims that Vice towns related with the word vis meand "town" from Thrakian or another Indo-European Languages (Old Persian Vith, Avesta visa, Sanskrit vesah, Goth weihs etc.) Öztürk, claims that Istanbul's old name Byzantion, Vize town in Kırklareli (Thracia), Visa, Visani, Viziru and Vizireni towns in Romania,Vis in Bulgaria, Viçe, Visir, Aşağı Viçe, Arhavi (Arkeo + Vice "old wown), visera, Vizera in Pontus, Bizirne and Bizeri town in Paphlagonia are related with the same origin..
Geography
Like most Black Sea districts Fındıklı consists of a small strip of coast and a larger area of hills and mountains behind (which lead up into the Kaçkar Mountains. The recent widening of the Black Sea coast road has spoilt the quiet beauty of the seaside here, but the mountain countryside inland is still breathtakingly beautiful.
There is little flat land in Fındıklı and most of the population lives in two large valleys, the Çağlayan ((Laz: აბუ/Abu) and the Arılı (ფიცხალა/Pi3xala). The climate is typical of the Black Sea coast, 6 months of dark cloud, 4 months overcast, six weeks of light cloud and 19 days of sunshine, with light rain at some point during every one of the 365 days of the year. These conditions are ideal for the crops that drive the local economy; tea, hazelnuts and some other fruits, 32,000 tons of tea each year and 750 tons of hazelnuts. Other produce includes milk, meat, eggs, honey and fish, and the new development is the planting of kiwi fruit.
Fındıklı itself is a small market town of 9,980 people. There is no industry and the young generations regularly migrate away to jobs in larger cities.
The people are mostly ethnic Laz.
History
See Rize Province for the history the area, once part of the Roman Empire, and the Empire of Trebizond, brought into the Ottoman Empire in 1509 and briefly occupied by Russia at the end of the First World War.
References
- "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
- Özhan Öztürk. Pontus: Antik Çağ’dan Günümüze Karadeniz’in Etnik ve Siyasi Tarihi. Genesis Yayınları. Ankara, 2011. 2. Baskı p. 247-348. ISBN 978-605-54-1017-9
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| Fındıklı, Rize in Rize Province of Turkey | ||
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