İkizdere

This is hilly countryside inland from the Black Sea, forest-covered steep mountainside separated by narrow valleys, with areas of high pasture.

The İkizdere is formed from streams running out of the Rize Mountains and continues down to the Black Sea, it is dammed for hydro-electric power and for irrigation.

However, on the whole İkizdere is not a wealthy region and the younger generations migrate to Turkey's larger cities in search of jobs.

In 67 BCE, Pompey the Great led a Roman military campaign against the Heptakometes today's ikizderelian Ancestors in what is presently known as İkizdere in Turkey’s Rize province.

There are also a number of interesting wooden houses from the Ottoman period, and many areas of high meadow for walking and trekking, including:

A variety of endemic-type flowers exist in the Anzer plateau (also known as the Ballıköy plateau). This photo was taken in the southeast of the İkizdere district of Rize, one of the major cities in the Black Sea region of Turkey. The famous Anzer honey is produced here.
Population pyramid