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Fındıklı District
Fındıklı District is a district of the Rize Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Fındıklı.İlçe Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
Its area is 383 km2, and its population is 16,487 (2021).


Composition

There is one in Fındıklı District: * Fındıklı There are 23 in Fındıklı District:
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Fındıklı, Rize
Fındıklı is a town in Rize Province on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, east of the city of Rize. It is the seat of Fındıklı District.İlçe Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 30 January 2023.


Etymology

The town was formerly named and still locally known as Viçe () or Vitz’e () which some claim means "twig" or "branch" in the Laz language, Laz language and was renamed Fındıklı ("place with hazelnuts" in Turkish language, Turkish) after the hazelnuts grown in the town, although these have now mostly been replaced with tea. Scholar Özhan Öztürk claims that the town's former and native name comes from the word ''vis'', meaning "town" in the now-extinct Thracian language and other Indo-European languages (Old Persian ''vith'', Avesta ''visa'', Sanskri ...
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