Salarha (before 2016: ''Çaykent'')
is a town (''
belde Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish.
All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the villages (and also subdistricts) are usually too small to have ...
'') in the
Rize District
Rize District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of the Rize Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Rize.[Rize Province
Rize Province ( tr, Rize ili) is a province of northeast Turkey, on the eastern Black Sea coast between Trabzon and Artvin. The province of Erzurum is to the south. It was formerly known as Lazistan, the designation of the term of Lazistan was ...]
, Turkey.
Belde Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 30 January 2023. Its population is 2,263 (2021).
History
According to ''list of villages in Laz language
The Laz language (; ka, ლაზური ენა/ჭანური ენა, tr; tr, Lazca, tr) is a Kartvelian language spoken by the Laz people on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea. In 2007, it was estimated that there were aro ...
'' book (2009), name of the village is Salarxa.
Geography
The village is located south from Rize
Rize (Greek: ρίζα, Laz: რიზინი, Georgian: რიზე,
, Ottoman Turkish: ريزه)
is the capital city of Rize Province in the eastern part of the Black Sea Region of Turkey.
Rize is a typically Turkish provincial capital with ...
.
References
Town municipalities in Turkey
Populated places in Rize District
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