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115 Akçaabat 93 Akçakale 93 Akurgal, Ekrem 80 Altındere Vadisi Milli Parkı 30 Altıntepe 47 Alum Mining 51 Amasra 73 115 Index Akçaabat 93 Çarşamba Ovası 86 Akçakale 93 Cehennem Deresi Kanyonu 9 Akurgal, Ekrem 80 Çelebi, Evliya 6, 25, 46, 50, 63, 87 Altındere Vadisi Milli Parkı 30 Cerasus (see Giresun) Altıntepe 47 Chaldia region 33 Alum mining 51 Chalybia 87 Amasra 73 Christians, conversion of 92, 95 Amasya 60 Çiftlik 82 Amazons 87, 90 Çıldır, Lake 11 Anchovies 25 Clavijo, Spanish Ambassador 72, 87, Apollonius Rodius 90 91, 99 Ardanuç 8 Comana Pontica 53 Ardeşen 99 Comneni (Grand Comneni, rulers of Argonauts 71 Trebizond) 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 30, 31, Armenians 51, 99 87, 89, 93, 97 Arrian 88 David the Great 8 Ashot the Great 8 Dazimonitis Plain 59 Atatürk (Mustafa Kemal) 57, 68, 86 Divriği 48 Bafra 84 Dolişhane 9 Bağbaşı 10 Dört Kilise 10 Balard, Michel 75 Doubera, Maria de 16, 60; (mausoleum Ballard, Robert 82 of) 21 Ballıca Mağarası caves 60 Eastmond, Anthony 22 Bartın 72 Ereğli 70 Bayburt 36 Erzincan 47 Bayezıt II 60 Erzurum 40 Bedrama Kalesi 90 Eskipazar 67 Billotti, Alfred 36 Eynesil 91 Black Sea 6, 77 Falconry 96 Bolaman 88 Fatsa 88 Bryer, Anthony 20, 80, 91, 93, 97 Filyos 72 Budde, Ludwig 80 Fırtına Dere 99 Byron, Lord 6 Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia 56 Caesarea Hadrianopolis 67 Genoa, Genoese 24, 56, 74, 85, 90, 91 Çaleoğlu Kale 88 Georgia 8 Çankırı 67 Ghiselin de Busbecq, Ogier 60 116 Blue Guide The Black Sea Coast Gideros cove 76 Men Pharnakes, temple of 54 Giresun 89 Mithridates VI 52, 81, 85 Greek colonisation 14 Mithridatic dynasty 61 Greeks, Pontic 27 Mongols 17, 41 Gregory of Khandzta 8 Morier, James 41, 45 Gregory the Illuminator 47, 48, 52 Niksar 52 Gülbahar Hatun (see Doubera, Maria Northern Anatolian Fault 40 de) Of 95 Gümüşhane 33 Ordu 88 Hadrian, emperor 15, 32 Öşk Vank 10 Haho 10 Paphlagonia 65 Hamamlı 9 Paulicians 49, 51 Hamilton, W.J. 80, 84, 87 Pazar 99 Hamsi (anchovy) 25 Pitman, Walter 77 Hazelnuts 90 Pliny the Elder 47, 81 Hazinedaroğlu family 87, 88 Pliny the Younger 73 Hellier, Chris 9 Polo, Marco 47 Hell’s Canyon 9 Pompeiopolis 67 Heracleia Pontica (see Ereğli) Pompey the Great 50, 53, 56, 67 Hisarönü 72 Pontic Greeks 27 Hopa 100 Rize 97 Horoztepe 59 Ryan, William 77 Ibn Hawqal 15 Sadak 35 Il Khanate, Il Khans 17, 41 Safranbolu 68 İşhan 10 Salarköy 68 İspir 37 Samsun 84 Julius Caesar 53 Satala 35 Justinian, emperor 15, 36, 56, 97 Schatberdi Manastiri 9 Kastamonou 68 Şebinkarahisar 50 Kemah 48 Şeytan Kalesi 11 Khurramshad, architect 49 Sinclair, T.A. 50 Kızılırmak river 56; (delta of) 84 Sinop 78 Kurumli 92 Sivas 56 Kuşköy 91 St George Peristerota, monastery 31 Kuştul Manastırı 31 Strabo 6, 52, 53, 60, 61, 72, 77 Laurens, Jules 87 Stravriotai 92 Laz people 95, 96, 97 Sulusaray 59 Leri 35 Sumela, monastery of 30 Lynch, H.F.B. 19, 40 Sürmene Kastil 95 Mad honey 95 Talbot Rice, David 22 Mahperi Hatun Kervansaray 60 Tao-Klardjeti 8 Mama Hatun Külliyesi 46 Taşköprü 67 Matzouka Valley 27 Tbeti Cathedral 11 Medreseönü 88 Tea-growing 97 Mehmet II, sultan 18, 21, 33, 70 Temple States 52 Index 117 Terme 87 Uzungöl, lake 37 Theophrastus 91 Uzun Hasan 16, 18, 59 Timur 48, 57 Vank, monastery of 10 Tios (see Filyos) Vazelon, monastery of 31 Tirebolu 90 Venice, Venetians 24, 47, 75, 97 Tokat 59 Winfield, David 80, 93 Tonya 91 Xenophon 13, 65, 88, 89, 95; (the Ten Tortum Çayı 10 Thousand) 32 Torul castle 33 Yason Burnu 88 Trabzon 13 Yeni Rabat, church of 9 Trapezuntine princesses 16 Yeşilırmak river 59 Turhal 60 Yetirmez 35 Ünye 87 Zela (Zile) 53.
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