Soğuksu is a neighbourhood of the town Pazar, Pazar District,

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 ...

, northeastern

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. Its population is 1,615 (2021).

History

According to Armenian traveller Minas Bijishkyan's book (1819), name of the village is "Psyxrós", which means "cold water" in Greek. According to ''list of villages in

Laz language The Laz or Lazuri language () is a Kartvelian languages, Kartvelian language spoken by the Laz people on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea. In 2007, it was estimated that there were around 20,000 native speakers in Turkey, in a strip of ...

'' book (2009), name of the neighborhood is Shilerit. Most inhabitants of the neighbourhood are ethnically Laz.

References

Neighbourhoods of Pazar, Rize Laz settlements in Turkey {{Rize-geo-stub