İyidere

Infobox Settlement
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subdivision_type1=Region
subdivision_name1 = Black Sea
subdivision_type2=Province
subdivision_name2 = Rize| population_total = 10074|population_footnotes=
population_as_of =| 2000
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area_total_km2 = 25|elevation_m =
latd = 40
latm = 99
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longd = 40
longm = 33
longEW = E
postal_code_type=Postal code
postal_code = 53
area_code = (0090)+ 464
leader_title=Mayor
leader_name = Ahmet Mete
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website = http://www.iyidere.gov.tr/

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

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.

External links

* [http://www.iyidere.bel.tr/ District municipality's official website]
** [http://www.iyidere.bel.tr/galeri.php and photo gallery]
* [http://www.iyidere.gov.tr/ District governor's official website]