belde Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish.
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Rize District
Rize District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of the Rize Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Rize.Rize Province
Rize Province ( tr, Rize ili) is a province of northeast Turkey, on the eastern Black Sea coast between Trabzon and Artvin. The province of Erzurum is to the south. It was formerly known as Lazistan, the designation of the term of Lazistan was ...
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Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
.Belde Belediyesi Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 30 January 2023. Its population is 2,571 (2021).