Maps of Artvin - Artvin Map, Turkey |
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Return to main Turkey Road Map Artvin is an authentic tourism place that contains various tourism values with festivals, traditional architecture, historical churches, fauna and flora riches, castles and arched bridges, green plateaus, black roses, crater lakes placed at highs of mountains, natural virgin forests, mountains heights to 3900 meter arrange order by following each other. The perpendicular sloped long valleys and Coruh river divide province in two parts. Historical background of Artvin is traced to 3000 BC, it means that it is related to Bronze Age. Hurri's, Urartu, Persians, Romans, Byzantine, Georgians and Armenians lived at Artvin. Than Artvin live Seljuklian, Saltuk, Ilhanli, Timur, Akkoyunlu, Safevi and Ottoman periods. It changed to a county of Rize in 1923, than changed to province again and named Coruh at the year of 1936. Its name changed to Artvin in 1956. |
