Güneysu
Sign in to savethumb|Rize location Güneysu Güneysu is a town in Rize Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, inland from the city of Rize. It is the seat of Güneysu District. Its population is 8,722 (2021).
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- municipality
- Turkey place.name
- Güneysu
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- File:Guneysu-kanboz - panoramio.jpg
- Turkey place.province
- Rize
- Turkey place.district
- Güneysu
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Rıfat Özer
- Turkey place.population_total
- 8722
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2021
- Turkey place.blank1_name
- Climate
- Turkey place.blank1_info
- Cfa
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Climate
- People from Güneysu
- References
thumb|Rize location Güneysu Güneysu is a town in Rize Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, inland from the city of Rize. It is the seat of Güneysu District. Its population is 8,722 (2021).
==History== Güneysu was formerly named in Greek Potamya (Ποταμιὰ, "river village") and the name persists in local usage to this day, as Güneysu stands on a plain watered by the Potamya river, a tributary of the Taşlıdere (or Askoroz) river (the ancient and Byzantine Ἄσκουρος ποταμός).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Güneysu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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