Editing Rize (section)

==History==
{{main article|Rize Province}}

[[Arrian]] was the first writer to mention Rize. In his [[Periplus of the Euxine Sea]],<ref>[http://www.kultur.gov.tr/EN/belge/2-2108/eski2yeni.html An Overview of Rize's History]</ref> he described it as a city founded at the mouth of the river of the same name, the [[Ancient Greece|ancient]] and [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] ῾Ρίζιος ποταμός.<ref>Περίπλους τοῦ Εὐξείνου Πόντου</ref> Dated to 130–131AD and written as a letter to Roman Emperor [[Hadrian]], the work records how its author, the governor of [[Cappadocia]], made a tour of the Eastern [[Black Sea]] territories that formed part of his jurisdiction, first visiting the Roman Empire's Eastern [[Anatolia]]n frontier garrisons before pushing on to the Black Sea coast in the [[Trabzon]] (Trebizond) region.<ref>[[:wikisource:The Periplus of the Euxine Sea|The Periplus of the Euxine Sea]]. Oxford: sold by J. Cooke; and by Messrs. Cadell and Davies Strand, London. 1805. Note: Arrian only mentions the River Rhizius, not any settlement by that name. It is quoted as being to the east of the river Ophis after the rivers Psychrus and Calus.</ref>
The city of Rize formed part of the historic Georgian province of Chaneti ({{lang-ka|ჭანეთი}}).

From 1547, Chaneti province was incorporated into the [[Ottoman Empire]] and became a part of the ''[[Sanjak|sancak]]'' of [[Lazistan Sanjak|Lazistan]]. The city was claimed by the short-lived [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]] between 1918 and 1920. On the basis of the 1921 [[Treaty of Kars]], Soviet Russia granted Rize to Turkey along with the other territories of [[Artvin]], [[Ardahan]], and [[Hopa]] ({{lang-ka|ხუფათი}}).
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File:Rizunda.jpg|Rize in 1890s
File:Rize-postakarti-osmanli.jpg|Rize, 1910s, Ottoman-era postcard
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