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    Giresun Island (Turkish: Giresun Adası) is a small island that has an area of 4 hectares and lies 1.2 km from the Turkish city of Giresun on the southeastern...
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    city of Trabzon. It is the seat of Giresun Province and Giresun District. It has a population of 125,682 (2022). Giresun was known to the ancient Greeks...
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  • Arkoutino K Island - divided with Ukraine Sacalin Island Insula Sulinei Krupinin Island [ru] Sudzhuk Island [ru] Utrish Island [ru] Giresun Island Hoynat Islet...
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  • Ordu–Giresun Airport (IATA: OGU, ICAO: LTCB) (Turkish: Ordu-Giresun Havalimanı) is an airport on an artificial island just off the coast of Gülyalı, a...
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    Giresun Castle is a fortress built in the 2nd century BC in what is now Giresun Province, Turkey. Giresun Castle was built on the order of Pharnaces I...
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  • Adası Büyükada (Amasra) Giresun Island Hoynat Islet Kefken Island Öreke [tk] Ukrainian islands Snake Island Norwegian islands: Jan Mayen Svalbard (territory...
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  • Glacial erratic of Estonia of Rügen of Washington State, United States of Island County, Washington of King County, Washington of Kitsap County, Washington...
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    Black Sea (section Islands)
    Utrish Island Krupinin Island Sudiuk Island Kefken Island Oreke Island Giresun Island – Turkey Dzharylhach Island – Ukraine Zmiinyi (Snake) Island – Ukraine...
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  • Hamza Stone (category Giresun)
    boulder on the eastern coast of Giresun Island in the Black Sea, located 1.2 km off the coast of the Turkish city of Giresun. The stone, known to locals since...
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    (secondary coordinates) This is a list of islands of Turkey. There are around 500 islands and islets in Turkey. These islands are located in the Aegean Sea, Black...
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    Greeks inhabited Giresun, then called Kerasous, from the 5th century BC. During this time, they must also have used Giresun Island. The poet Apollonius...
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  • Aksu is a small village (köy in Turkish) of Dereli District of the Giresun Province of Turkey. Its population is 169 (2022). It is located in the upper...
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    island in 1994, followed by Chūbu Centrair International Airport in 2005, and both the New Kitakyushu Airport and Kobe Airport in 2006, Ordu Giresun Airport...
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    September 1997. The ship serves in the Turkish Navy as TCG Giresun (F 491). On 16 March 2009, Giresun, along with HDMS Absalon successfully prevented a pirate...
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    transferred to the Turkish Navy and recommissioned the same day as TCG Giresun (D 345). Giresun was stricken and scrapped in 1973. DANFS says 197; but the article...
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    The Princes' Islands (Turkish: Prens Adaları; the word "princes" is plural, because the name means "Islands of the Princes", Greek: Πριγκηπονήσια, Pringiponisia)...
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  • piratical raids made on the Araniotai, which includes Ares Island (modern Giresun Island). William Miller considers these seaborne raids to be the acts...
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  • The language is associated with Kuşköy, a village in northern Turkey's Giresun Province that has hosted a Bird Language, Culture and Art Festival annually...
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    Imbros (redirect from Imroz Island)
    Turkish: ايمروز), officially Gökçeada (lit. 'Heavenly Island') since 29 July 1970, is the largest island of Turkey, located in Çanakkale Province. It is located...
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    Niğde Adana Hatay Osmaniye K. Maraş Kayseri Sivas Tokat Amasya Samsun Ordu Giresun Erzincan Malatya Gaziantep Kilis Şanlıurfa Adıyaman Gümüşhane Trabzon Rize...
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    frigate Giresun responded to a distress call from Full City. An Indian Navy Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft located Full City, and while Giresun boarded...
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  • Eskişehir 797,708 Nizip Gaziantep 147,865 Gaziantep Gaziantep 1,775,904 Giresun Giresun 122,787 Antakya Hatay 555,833 İskenderun Hatay 350,456 Dörtyol Hatay...
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    Osman Aga, the brigand leader who was now also mayor of Giresun, pillaged coastal villages. In Giresun itself, on the night of August 13, Osman imprisoned...
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  • calendar); and in Sürmene, it is called "Litropi." In Giresun, the people pray at Arethian Island, where there used to be a shrine to Ares; but in most...
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    Greece (Cfa, bordering on Dfa) Geoje, South Korea (Cfa, bordering on Cwa) Giresun, Turkey (Cfa) Girona, Spain (Cfa, bordering on Csa) Huesca, Spain (Cfa)...
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    Facade.  Spain Barceloneta area, Barcelona.  Turkey Airports of Trabzon, Giresun and Rize. Coastal parks and streets of Istanbul Yenikapı.  United Kingdom...
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    around the Kurdish PKK, attacked a Gendarmerie General Command base in Giresun Province in northeastern Turkey. According to news reports, a roadside...
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    Rize–Artvin Airport (category Artificial island airports)
    in 2017. It is the country's second airport of its sort following Ordu–Giresun Airport. It is expected that the airport will serve about two million passengers...
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    the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill, and the Turkish frigate TCG Giresun responded to a distress call from the Panamanian-flagged, Chinese-owned...
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    vilayet Kocaeli vilayet Konya vilayet Kütahya vilayet Gümüşhane vilayet Giresun vilayet Mardin vilayet Mersin vilayet Maraş vilayet Menteşe (Muğla) vilayet...
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