THE CITY OF CULTURE AND HISTORY:
Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman monuments, and narrone cobbled streets are reminders of Trabzon's fascinating history as a strategic Black Sea port
This port city on the Turkey's eastern Black Sea coast was an important link on the Silk Road for many centuries and has been extensirely described by Marco Polo and other travellers. Today Trabzon remains a major port giving decess to eastern Turkey, the Caucasus and Iran and also has an airport used by many tourists attracted to the famous Sumela Manastery and the Kackar Mountains in fact, the city itself is of considerable interest, as we will see in this stroll around its historic monuments.
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History of Trabzon:
Although there isn't detailed information about history of Trabzon, it is belived that it goes back to 2000 B.C. first residents as well as the founders of Central Asian coming from Causasian plateaus according to domestic and foreign sources After than it was invaded by Greek, Persian, Romans, Byzantine Empires, In 1461 Sultan Fatih the Conqueror invaded the city that became one of the most important centers of Ottoman Empire.
There are several ideas on the name of "Trabzon".
Rumours include first settlers naming the city "Trapezus" in connection with large socks found in arable lands in the trapezi form and the colonist calling it "Table Land" since it was situated on a terrace shaped as atable or naming the city "Trapesus" because of the trapezoid city walls and then converted into Trabzon.
Another rumour is that immigrants from Trapesos called roman historian Melave Tacitus uses the words "glorious" and "famous" when talking about Trabzon and this also indicate that Trabzon was a city as famous as and as ancient as Rome.
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