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About Çaykara
Çaykara (Romeika: Κατωχώρι, Kadahor) is a municipality and district of Trabzon Province, Turkey. Its area is 574 km2, and its population is 13,070 (2022). As of 2023, the Mayor of Çaykara is Hanefi Tok (AKP). Çaykara village lies in a V-shaped valley along the Solaklı River in the Pontic Mountains, at an elevation of around 300 metres. Çaykara district lies to the south of Dernekpazarı (Kondu) and forms the upper part of the Of-valley system ('Solaklı Vadisi' in Turkish), with peaks reaching to over 3300 meters. The western half of İkizdere district - which lies just east of Çaykara and is now part of Rize province - was historically also part of the same administrative and cultural region.
From the Wikipedia article Çaykara (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
Current Çaykara district covers the upper parts of the 'Ophis' ('Solaklı' in modern Turkish) river valley, and its tributaries. The river Ophis and a homonymous Greek settlement at its mouth were first mentioned in antiquity by Arrian. A path besides the river functioned as a trade route connecting the coast with eastern Anatolia, through 'Paipert' (current Bayburt). In the Middle Ages, the administrative region (or Bandon) to which the area of Çaykara belonged was known as Stylos. It lay between the bandon of Sourmena and Rhizaion. Settlement of the higher parts of the valley is first attested in the middle-ages, when it was part of the Byzantine Empire. The history of individual villages and towns in the district going back to antiquity is unknown. This may be due to the frequent landslides that occur there, and the limited archeological research which has been conducted. A few place names hint at a possible Chaldian presence in the valley before it was Hellenized, such as the Haldizen (Χάλντιζεν) stream in the southeast of the district and the village 'Halt' (Χάλτ, or Söğütlü in Turkish), downstream in Of-district. It is assumed that Kadahor was one of the original settlements in the area, which may explain its name and function as the central market-town of the upper valley.
From the History section of Çaykara on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Trabzon International Airport (TZX) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 46 km away.
- Dernekpazarı 6 km north, about 6 min by car
- Köprübaşı 12 km northwest, about 12 min by car
- Hayrat 19 km northeast, about 19 min by car
- Sürmene 20 km northwest, about 20 min by car
- Of 22 km north, about 22 min by car
- Rize 39 km northeast, about 39 min by car
- Yomra 39 km northwest, about 39 min by car
- Trabzon 52 km northwest, about 52 min by car
- Gümüşhane 71 km southwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Ardeşen 80 km northeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
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Photo credits
- Old house in Çaykara, NeoRetro, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Streets of Çaykara - panoramio, Melih Rustu CALIKOGL…, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Çaykara Oct 2020 17 55 33 749000, Robot8A, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Çaykara in 1967 - panoramio, Talip Çalıkoğlu, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Çaykara Oct 2020 17 55 51 720000, Robot8A, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Çaykara Oct 2020 17 55 40 696000, Robot8A, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Çaykara Oct 2020 17 55 22 879000, Robot8A, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Çaykara Ataköy Uzungöl kavşağı Uzungöl yönü tabela hasarlı, Blg61, CC0
- Falcon Rocks from the old madrasah - panoramio, Melih Rustu CALIKOGL…, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Hold it steady when the sun rises - panoramio, Melih Rustu CALIKOGL…, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mist comes down - panoramio, Melih Rustu CALIKOGL…, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Old pathway beneath the Hazelnut field - panoramio, Melih Rustu CALIKOGL…, CC BY-SA 3.0
- CambasiHES, Enerjisa Uretim, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rocks to fell apart - panoramio, Melih Rustu CALIKOGL…, CC BY-SA 3.0
- The window and the scenery - panoramio, Melih Rustu CALIKOGL…, CC BY-SA 3.0
- The old wooden fense - panoramio, Melih Rustu CALIKOGL…, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Street-level photo, robot8a, CC BY-SA 4.0
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