Borçka
Sign in to saveBorçka () is a town in Artvin Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, on the border with Georgia. It is the seat of Borçka District. Its population is 11,409 (2021).
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- municipality
- Turkey place.name
- Borçka
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Borcka,mainroad.jpg
- Turkey place.province
- Artvin
- Turkey place.district
- Borçka
- Turkey place.leader_party
- CHP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Ercan Orhan
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 123
- Turkey place.population_total
- 11409
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2021
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 08400
- Turkey place.blank1_name
- Climate
- Turkey place.blank1_info
- Cfb
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Middle ages
- Ottoman rule
- Russian rule
- After Turkish annexation
- References
- External links
Borçka () is a town in Artvin Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, on the border with Georgia. It is the seat of Borçka District. Its population is 11,409 (2021).
Borçka is reached by a winding road up from the Black Sea coast, alongside the Çoruh River (Nigali valley). There is a medieval stone arched bridge across the river just west of the town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Borçka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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