Pazar

Pazar is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 37 km east of the city of Rize. The town was formerly named Atina (Αθήνα του Πόντου) and was renamed Pazar 'market' in 1928. Pazar is a strip of Black Sea coast with high mountains running parallel to the coast inland. This coast has a mild climate with warm summers (22°C in August) and cool winters (7°C in January, it rarely snows on the coast), but very wet and humid, apart from the early summer (April-May-June) it rains heavily here all year round, with an average of 50 sunny days per year. The wind off the Black Sea is cold in autumn, warm and wet in summer. With all this rainfall the area is very green, and even more water is brought to the area by the...