Artvin Tourist Map With Attractions Visiting Places

Artvin, Turkey's Black Sea located in the department of the Eastern Black Sea Region is a province located in the Black Sea coast. Province is located in the northeast corner of Turkey-Georgia border. Ardahan province to the east, Erzurum province to the south and west to the province of Rize. The former name of the province was Çoruh, and Artvin became the Law No. 6668 dated February 15, 1956.

History

View of the city of Artvin from the top of Mamazimda (Mamatsminda). Subsequent color photo by Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin Gorskii 1905-1912
Artvin, located in the Çoruh Basin, was located within the borders of Kolheti and Iberia in ancient times. Some researchers argue that the Fasis River mentioned in Greek mythology was not the Rioni, but the Coruh on the banks of Artvin. It is assumed that Artvin was a Bronze Age settlement during the Kolheti period. According to the sources that convey the history of the region in classical chronology, Artvin was invaded by the Cimmerians in the 8th century BC and by the Scythians in the 7th century BC. It came under the rule of Iberia Kingdom in 200 BC, Pontus in 119 BC, and Rome in 65 BC. During the excavations carried out by Kılıç Kökten in 1944, traces of settlement associated with Kura-Aras (Early Trans-Caucasus Culture) dating to 3500-2200 BC were found around the province.

Artvin is located in the Tao-Klarceti region, which was an important center of Georgians in the early Middle Ages. century was a place ruled by kurapalatiler. Then took part in the united Georgia kingdom. After the disintegration of the united Georgian kingdom and the invasion of Moogol, it became governed by Georgian atabegs in the 13th century. In the 16th century, it fell into the hands of the Ottomans, who retreated Georgian arabegs. When the Ottomans completely conquered Tao-Klarceti, they established Çıldır Province. Artvin was the center of Livana (Nisf-i Livana) in this province. Artvin, which was under Ottoman rule for a long time, passed into the hands of the Russians during the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-1878.

After this war, a significant number of Georgians emigrated from Artvin and its environs. Shortly before this date, in 1874, according to Giorgi Kazbegi's assessment, Georgian was rarely spoken in the city of Artvin, but almost everyone in the back districts spoke Georgian. Artvin had an important Armenian population after the Georgians. There were 2,000 houses throughout the city. 100 of them belonged to Gregorian Armenians, 600 belonged to Catholic Armenians and the rest belonged to Muslims. In accordance with this distribution, the population had five mosques, four Catholic and one Gregorian churches. The city had eight coffee houses and 250 shops. The houses were set up side by side on a steep slope of the mountain. On the outskirts of the city there were olive groves and fig trees called villages. Giorgi Kazbegi, who toured the region in 1874, writes that only Armenians were engaged in trade in Artvin. In 1882, Artvin had two Armenian Gregorian, three Armenian Catholic churches, three leather factories and seven schools. During the Russian rule, the city of Artvin was the center of the same name (okrug).

After the withdrawal of the Russian army from the region towards the end of the First World War, Artvin was included in the independent borders of Georgia between 1918-1921. During the invasion of Georgia by the Red Army in 1921, Georgian troops withdrew from the region in accordance with the note given by the Ankara Government to the Georgian government on February 23, 1921. Turkish troops occupied most of the Tao-Klarceti region (Artvin and Ardahan) and Batumi in a general campaign. However, Turkish troops were removed from Batumi Giorgi Mazniaşvil by the Georgian military command and only stayed in Artvin and Ardahan regions within Turkey's borders. On January 4, 1936, the newly established Çoruh province and on February 17, 1956, the newly established Artvin province was built.

Historical buildings
The most important historical building in the city of Artvin is the Artvin Castle (47 x 37 m). The building, also known as Livane Castle, is located in the Çayağzı neighborhood in the northwest part of the city. It is situated on a hill 70 meters above the river, on the right side of the river, overlooking the Coruh River. The castle, which has a tower, has survived to a great extent. Artvin Castle was built in 937 by the Georgian king Ashot the Great of Bagrationi dynasty. The castle, which was taken over by the Ottomans in the 16th century, was restored several times. Artvin Castle, which is in the military zone today, was restored in 2004. Inside the castle are the remains of churches and cisterns.