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  Giresun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giresun is a town in north-eastern Turkey with 90,000 inhabitants (2003 estimate) on the Black Sea.
Giresun and its surrounding region has a rich agriculture, specialising in cherries, hazelnuts and walnuts, as well as hides and timber.
Giresun was known to the ancient Greeks as Choerades or Pharnacia and to the Romans as Kerasous or Cerasus Giresun's history goes back to the 2nd century BCE, when it was founded by Greek colonists from Sinope.
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 Giresun
It is the capital of Giresun Province with 525,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
Giresun and its surrounding region has a rich agriculture, specializing in cherries, hazelnuts and walnuts, as well as hides and timber.
Giresun is an important sea port for its region, thanks to an artificial harbour from the 1960's.
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 deviantART: giresun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Giresun, which is in Eastern Black Sea Region, is founded on a peninsula.
Giresun, is one of the pearl like cities of Black Sea where green and blue are hug together at northern east of Anatolia.
Giresun, clinging to the slopes of mountains spilling down into the Black Sea, is famous as the birthplace of the cherry.
giresun.deviantart.com   (617 words)

  
 Giresun / Kerasous, Turkey
Just outside the harbor is the little island of Giresun Adasi (ancient Aretia) where according to legend the Argonauts landed.
Giresun occupies the site of ancient Kerasous, founded by Miletus in the seventh century B.C. Xenophon and his Ten Thousand halted here on their march back to the sea.
The present name of Giresun apparently owes its origins to the Roman general Lucullus who found a particularly good type of cherry here (Greek = "kerássi", Latin = "cerasus" and Turkish = "kiraz") which he later took back to Rome.
www.planetware.com /turkey/giresun-kerasous-tr-gi-gi.htm   (240 words)

  
 Giresun - All About Turkey
In the 2nd century BC, the Roman general Lucullus, who came to the ancient Cerasos, saw a delicious fruit here, and carried its trees back to his country.
The ruins of a temple, built by the Amazons to whom the island is said to have belonged, can be seen here in addition to a Byzantine Monastery.
On March 29, 2006, Total Solar Eclipse will occur in Giresun at 14:09pm local time.
www.allaboutturkey.com /giresun.htm   (278 words)

  
 Giresun - Information and photos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It was there then that the cherry (Kerasus) giving Giresun its name, spread all over the world.
Inside the city, there exists a church dating to the 18th century.
Just outside the harbor, is Giresun Island which also carries remains from the earliest times.
www.worldturkey.com /cities/giresun   (219 words)

  
 Mine's space   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Giresun is a Black Sea city in Turkey where both of my parents are from.
So during my childhood I spent all my summers in Giresun with my grandparents, aunts, uncles and my other relatives.
I was born in Ankara, the capital of Turkey.
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 Giresun Province: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Giresun is a province[Click link for more facts about this topic] of Turkey[For more, click on this link] on the Black Sea Black Sea quick summary:
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The provincial capital is Giresun Giresun quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/giresun_province.htm   (364 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Giresun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Giresun; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
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 AllRefer.com - Giresun (Turkey Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
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67,536), capital of Giresun prov., NE Turkey, a port on the Black Sea.
It is the trade center for a farm region in which corn, filberts, beans, and potatoes are produced.
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 Webshots - Images of GiRESUN-TRABZON-TURKEY
Various Photographs From Giresun and Trabzon:East Black Sea Region Turkey
KARAGOL PEAK LAKE GIRESUN TURKEY EAST BLACK SEA REGION 2
AYGIR LAKE GIRESUN TURKEY EAST BLACK SEA REGION
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 Hotels Giresun - Hotel Giresun - Giresun Hotels and Apartments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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