Hemşin District is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

of the

Rize Province Rize Province () is a province of northeast Turkey, on the eastern Black Sea coast between Trabzon and Artvin. The province of Erzurum is to the south. Its area is 3,835 km2, and its population is 344,016 (2022). The capital is the city of R ...

of Turkey. Its seat is the town of

Hemşin Hemşin (Armenian: Համշէն ''Hamshen'' or Համամաշէն ''Hamamashen'', literally "Hamam's Hamlet"; Laz and Georgian: ზუგა ''Zuga''), is a town in Rize Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 57 km from the city of Riz ...

.İlçe Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 30 January 2023. Its area is 134 km², and its population is 2,482 (2021). Hemşin is a district of green hills about 20 km inland from the

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. The area is the ethnic homeland of the

Hemshin peoples The Hemshin people (, ; ), also known as Hemshinli or Hamshenis or Homshetsi, are a bilingual ethnographic group of Armenians who mostly practice Sunni Islam after their conversion from Christianity in the beginning of the 18th century an ...

of Turkey, known for their tradition of

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cultivation,

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s, traditional dress and song.

Composition

There is one

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in Hemşin District: *

There are 8

villages A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village ...

in Hemşin District:Köy
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 30 January 2023. * Akyamaç * Bilenköy * Çamlıtepe * Hilal * Kantarlı * Leventköy * Nurluca * Yaltkaya

References

Districts of Rize Province * {{Rize-geo-stub