Giresun Province

Information about Giresun Province

Giresun Province
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Location of Giresun Province
Location of Giresun Province in Turkey
Overview
Region:Black Sea Region, Turkey
Area:6,934 (km)
Total Population523,819 TUIK 2006 (est)
Licence plate code:28
Area code:0454
Governor Websitehttp://www..gov.tr
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Giresun is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Trabzon to the east, Gümüşhane to the south-west, Erzincan to the south, Sivas to the south-east, and Ordu to the west. The provincial capital is Giresun.

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Çımaklı village in the Espiye district, Giresun

Geography

Giresun is an agricultural region of great natural beauty, especially in the highlands. The lower areas near the Black Sea coast are Turkey's largest producer of hazelnuts, indeed a Giresun folk song tells "I will not eat a single hazelnut, unless you are by my side" [1], while another tells of a lover shot dead under a hazelnut tree [2] The higher mountain areas are forest and pasture and in places there is mining of copper, zinc, iron and other metals. The mountain villages are remote, with poor roads and little else in the way of infrastructure. And the hillsides are too steep for agriculture also, so for example cornbread is the traditional meal, as they cannot grow wheat. Life here is hard and in the past many people have left to find jobs in Turkey's larger cities or abroad.

The climate is typical of this stretch of the Black Sea coast i.e. very wet. Local flora includes bilberries (Turkish "taflan").

Districts

Giresun province is divided into 16 districts (capital district in bold):

Places of interest

  • Kümbet, Karagöl and Bektaş - areas of attractive mountain pasture in the district of Dereli, where people can enjoy walks and picnics. Annual folklore festivals are held here in summer.

Notable residents

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Aksu stream, Giresun

Politicians

Writers and artists

  • Ergin Günçe (1938, Giresun - 1983) poet
  • Fethi Naci (1927, Giresun - ) writer and critic
  • Aziz Nesin - (1915, Şebinkarahisar - 1995), writer and journalist
  • Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu (1913, Görele - 1975, Istanbul), painter and poet
  • Ahmet Yalçınkaya (b 1963, Giresun ) poet,
  • Hamit Görele (1903, Görele - 1980, Istanbul), painter
  • Yaman Okay (b 1951, Giresun -), actor and film director
  • İlyas İlbey actor, husband of Yasemin Yalçın
  • İlker Yasin Kanal Ds football commentator
  • Hulki Cevizoğlu (b 1958, Giresun - ), journalist, TV presenter and producer, specialises in political debate
  • Kadir Çelik (b Görele )TV producer and presenter,
  • Şafak Karaman (b 1967, Trabzon - ) minor celebrity and TV presenter, born to a Tirebolu family
  • Öztürk Serengil well-known film actor, father of Seren Serengil, grew up in Giresun
  • Salih Memecan (1952, Giresun - ), cartoonist of Sabah (newspaper).

Musicians

Giresun shares the folk music of the Black Sea region and is the birthplace of:
  • Katip Şadi (b 1932, Görele -) folk musician, player of the Kemençe, a local version of the violin.
Other musicians include:
  • Teoman (1967, Alucra - ), rock singer
  • Ozan Arif (1949, Alucra - ), poet, lyricist, balladeer of the extreme right MHP.
  • Bahadır Aydoğan Arabesk style singer
  • Mustafa Küçük folk-arabesk musician
  • Gökhan Semiz(1968, Istanbul- 1998 İstanbul) member of the pop music group Group Vitamin, family from Giresun

Sports people

Giresunspor are a minor league football team.

Giresun in popular culture

  • * The TV series Uy Başuma Gelenler was filmed in the village of Düzköy, its the story of a young man from Istanbul who inherits a hazelnut grove in Giresun (a Turkish twist on Monarch of the Glen.
  • The folk song Giresun üstünde vapur bağrıyor (Eşref Bey Ağıtı) meanwhile has been recorded by a number of artists including Ismail Hakkı Demircioğlu, and tells of a wounded soldier dying in Giresun
  • Giresun'un içinde has been sung by Musa Eroğlu, Selda Bağcan and Fuat Saka, who also sang Lazutlar which means corn in the local dialect and is a kind of Cider with Rosie rural idyll in verse.
  • Ahmet Kaya sang Mican a ballad about a local bandit in the mountains.

References

1. ^ bir fındığın içini yar senden ayrı yemem
2. ^ Giresun'un içinde yeşil fındık tarlasi vurdular feride'mi yere düştü bohçası

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Giresun is the provincial capital of Giresun Province in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about 110 miles (175 km) west of the city of Trabzon.

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Alucra is a town and a district of Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 130 km from the city of Giresun.

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Alucra is a modification of the Ottoman Empire name El Ücra meaning far-off' or remote''.
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Bulancak is a town and a district of Giresun Province on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, near to the city of Giresun.

With a population of 32,000 Bulancak is the largest town in the province apart from Giresun itself.
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Çamoluk is a town and a district of Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

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Dereli is a town and a district of Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

Dereli is a small town of 8,000 people in attractive countryside, in the valley of the Aksu River, inland from Giresun on the road to Şebinkarahisar.
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Espiye is a town and a district of Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

Etymology

"Espiye" and its earlier spelling "Esbüyeli" are the Turkish names for this district.
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Eynesil is a town and a district of Giresun Province on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, east of the city of Giresun, towards Trabzon.

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Giresun is the provincial capital of Giresun Province in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about 110 miles (175 km) west of the city of Trabzon.

Etymology

Giresun was known to the ancient Greeks as Choerades or Pharnacia
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Görele is a town and a district of Giresun Province on the Black Sea coast of eastern Turkey.

Etymology

The name derives from the Italian for coral as the Genoese named the area La Corolla.
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Güce is a town and a district of Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

This is a hilly district of great natural beauty. The lower areas are used for cultivating hazelnuts plus some tea and corn.
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Piraziz is a town and a district of Giresun Province on the Black Sea coast of Turkey.

In the Ottoman Empire period the town was named Piridede-Abdal.

The local economy depends of growing hazelnuts and fishing in the Black Sea.
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