Editing Rize (section)

==Name==
The name comes from [[Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|grc|ρίζα}} (riza) or Ριζαίον (Rizaion){{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}, meaning "mountain slopes" ({{lang|grc|ρίζα}} in Greek means root).<ref>[http://www.karalahana.com/karadeniz/rize_maddesi.htm Rize] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513094713/http://www.karalahana.com/karadeniz/rize_maddesi.htm |date=2008-05-13 }} article from [[Özhan Öztürk]], ''Encyclopedia of [[Black Sea]]'' (''Karadeniz Ansiklopedik Sözlük''), 2005</ref> In modern times, its Greek name was usually Ριζούντα (Rizunda). Its Latin forms are Rhizus and Rhizaeum, the latter of which is used in the [[Catholic Church]]'s list of [[titular see]]s as the name of [[bishopric]] of the town, which was once part of the late [[Roman province]] of [[Pontus Polemoniacus]]<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 959</ref>).

Other names (17th – 19th c.): Rizeh, Riseh, Rhizium, Irizeh, Irissa; used in trade or by merchants.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cressoni |first=B. E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=og2QlrU_lMYC&dq=irissa&pg=PA370 |title=Dizionario tascabile di geografia universale |year=1854 |location=Turin |pages=370 |language=it |trans-title=Pocket Dictionary of Universal Geography |access-date=2024-08-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Schiffner |first=Albert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okYoHI_3de4C&dq=%22irissa%22&pg=PA488 |title=Allgemeines deutsches Sach-Wörterbuch aller menschlichen Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten |publisher=Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche |year=1826 |volume=4 |location=Meissen (Germany) |pages=488 |language=de |trans-title=General German dictionary of all human knowledge and skills}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Balbi |first=Adriano |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H1IBAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22rize%22&pg=PA270 |title=Compendio di geografia universale |year=1824 |edition=4th |volume=1 |location=Livorno |page=370 |language=it |trans-title=Compendium of universal geography}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Stein |first=Christian Gottfried Daniel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2JlAAAAcAAJ&dq=rhizium&pg=PA931 |title=Geographisch-statistisches Zeitungs-, Post- und Comtoir-Lexicon |publisher=Hinrichs |year=1820 |volume=3 |location=Leipzig |page=931 |language=de |trans-title=Geographical-statistical news, post and comptoir lexicon}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=keBbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA631 |title=Complément du dictionnaire de l'Académie française |publisher=Firmin Didot Frères |year=1842 |location=Paris |page=631 |language=fr |trans-title=Supplement to the dictionary of the French Academy |chapter=Irizeh}}</ref>