Introducing Rize Province 3

Georgian King III. George (1156-1184) and Queen Thamara (1184-1212) periods of high position in the area of ​​the Georgian Army and the state has adopted Orthodox Christianity after Kuman Muslim Turks settled in the border regions. Today, living in the mountain villages of this period Kumbasarlar İkizdere of Rize Province in the Georgian army and the aging Queen Thamara by the Supreme Military Command who asked to be taken as a mansion for a game, leaving the area and his shot Kumbasar family were members of the Rize Mountains.

This period is defined as a textile and commercial center of the Greek Kingdom due to an accident but also in Trabzon Rize center (Bandon). Center, Sunday in the territory east of Rize that a separate administrative unit within the borders of the empire. 1458'de Uzun Hasan, Atabek, managed by the hand slipping into the territory of the basin Çoruh İspir region was also subject Akkoyunlular'a after Hemşin region. But the coastal town of Rize and Trabzon Sunday until the land belonged to the Kingdom. When Fatih Sultan Mehmet conquered Trabzon in 1461 in person at the beach until the land Coruh River, Hemşin, including the Ottoman Empire entered the rule.