Their campaigns were targeted at rich settlements on the Black Sea shores of the Ottoman Empire, and several times took them as far as Constantinople and Trabzon ( formerly Trebizond ).

Between the creation of the Istanbul Football League and Milli Lig, several other city leagues took place: Adana ( 1923 ), Ankara ( 1923 ), Eskişehir ( 1920 ), Izmir ( 1923 ), Kayseri ( 1936 ), and Trabzon ( 1923 ).

During the Ottoman period, Trabzon, because of the importance of its port, became a focal point of trade to Iran and the Caucasus.

As a result of the general development of the country, Trabzon has developed its economic and commercial life.

Trabzon is famous throughout Turkey for its anchovies called hamsi, which are the main meal in many restaurants in the city.

Because of security issues, the team played all of its home Euro 96 qualifiers in Trabzon, Turkey .< ref name =" euro96 ">

Remarkably attractive throughout its history, Trabzon was the subject of hundreds of travel books by western travellers, some of whom had named it " city of tale in the East " The capital city Trabzon was founded, as Trapezus, by Greek colonists from Sinope, modern Sinop, Turkey.

Dated at 131-132 B. C., the work records how its author, the governor of Cappadocia, made an inspection tour of the Eastern Black Sea territories that were part of his jurisdiction, first visiting the Roman Empire's Eastern Anatolian frontier garrisons before pushing on to the Black Sea coast in the Trabzon ( Trebizond ) region.

A view of the Hagia Sophia of Trabzon ( today a museum ) with its bell tower and the Black Sea coast in the background.

He was elected as a member of Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( TBMM ) from Trabzon at its first term on January 28, 1921.

There are three memorials in Trabzon that represents the history.

The city has a rich mining ( silver and bronze ) history and was the source of exports for Trabzon.

On 9 November, the wooden Ottoman armed steamer Trabzon was intercepted and sunk by the Greek torpedo boat No. 14 under Lt. Periklis Argyropoulos off Ayvalık.

Suleiman was born in Trabzon along the coast of the Black Sea, probably on 6 November 1494.

In Latin, Trabzon was called Trapezvs, which is the latinization of the Ancient Greek Τραπεζοῦς ( Trapezous ), the first name of the city.

During Bayezid II's reign, his son, Prince Selim was the sancakbeyi of Trabzon, and his son Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire was born in Trabzon in 1495.

Trabzon became the capital of the Vilayet of Trebizond, that was a vilayet of the north-eastern part of the Ottoman Empire.

The city was the site of one of the key battles between the Ottoman and Russian armies during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I which resulted in the capture of Trabzon by the Russian Caucasus Army under command of Grand Duke Nicholas and Nikolai Yudenich in April 1916.

Trabzon was a major Armenian extermination centre during the Armenian Genocide, as well as a location of subsequent trials ( see Trabzon during the Armenian Genocide ).

Following the Turkish War of Independence and the annulment of the Treaty of Sèvres ( 1920 ) which was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne ( 1923 ), Trabzon again became a part of Turkey.

On 9 November, the wooden Ottoman armed steamer Trabzon was intercepted and sunk by the Greek torpedo boat No. 14 under Lt. Periklis Argyropoulos off Ayvalık.

He was going to Trabzon to appear in the film Balalayka.

The nearby province Sivas was then inhabited by many Genoese merchants, transporting the goods that would arrive from the east and the south to their ports in Trabzon, Samsun and Sinop.

After the World War I, football in Trabzon city was about to be loved and started to grow in the 1920s via the high schools in the town.

Before appointed to Trabzon, in an army practice in Aegean, he won a prize and that prize was given to him Atatürk.

Avni Aker was the first physical education teacher in Trabzon and when the name was given, he was the Director of Youth and Sports in Trabzon.

Born at Bologna, she was named Trebisonda-a very unusual name for the country-after the Turkish town of Trabzon ( Trebisonda in Italian ), which her father considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Trabzon (, see other names, ) is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province.

The provincial capital is Trabzon city, and the traffic code is 61.

Trabzon province is divided into 18 districts ( capital district in bold ):

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

It dates back to the thirteenth century when Trabzon was the capital of the Empire of Trebizond.

During Ottoman years, the sanjak of Argyroupolis fell under the administration successively Rum Province, Erzurum Province and Trabzon ( Trapezunta in Greek ) Province, and was divided into four kazas: Argyroupolis ( Gümüşhane ), Torul ( capital city Ardassa ), Şiran ( Cheriana ), and Kelkit ( Keltik ).

The Turkish name of the city is Trabzon.

Russians banned Muslim mosques, and forced Turks, who were the main ethnic group of the city, to leave Trabzon.

In 1916, in a model combined Army-Navy assault, the Russian Black Sea fleet helped the Russian army to take the Ottoman city of Trebizond ( modern Trabzon ).

The Adygs settled in three main regions in Turkey — the region of Trabzon, located along the shores of the Black Sea, the region near the city of Ankara, the region near the city of Kayseri, and in the western part of the country near the region of Istanbul, this specific region experienced a severe earthquake in 1999.

Trabzonspor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Trabzon, Turkey.

The province was a site of major fighting between Ottoman and Russian forces during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I, which resulted in the capture of the city of Trabzon by the Russian army under command of Grand Duke Nicholas and Nikolai Yudenich in April 1916.

During the first centuries of the Ottoman Empire, many of the sons of sultans received their education in Manisa and the city is still commonly known in Turkey as " the city of shahzades " ( Şehzadeler şehri ) in Turkey, a distinctive title it shares only with Amasya and Trabzon.

Rize's primary trading partner is Trabzon, the most developed city of northeast Black Sea region.

* Hagia Sophia, Trabzon, a former church and mosque located in the city of Trabzon in the north-eastern part of Turkey