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Rize

Türkiye

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Rize ranks 5,540th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bhagalpur, Mažeikiai, and Lampsacus. Memorable people born in Rize include Kazım Ayvaz, Mehmet Akif Pirim, and Barış Alper Yılmaz. Rize has been the birth place of many athletes, and soccer players. Rize is located in Türkiye.

Rize is a coastal city in the eastern part of the Black Sea Region of Turkey. It is the seat of Rize Province and Rize District. Its population is 119,828 (2021). Rize is a typical Turkish provincial capital with little in the way of nightlife or entertainment. Since the border with Georgia was opened in the early 1990s, the Black Sea coast road has been widened and the town is much wealthier than it used to be. Current Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's family has its roots in Rize and the local university is named after him. The city is linked by road with Trabzon, Hopa (55 miles [88 km] east on the Georgian border, and Erzurum. Rize–Artvin Airport started operating in 2022. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1938 and 2000, Rize was the birth place of 3 globally memorable people, including Kazım Ayvaz, Mehmet Akif Pirim, and Barış Alper Yılmaz.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Rize were athletes (2), and soccer players (1),  while most who died were .

Over the past 100 years, athletes have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Rize, including Kazım Ayvaz, and Mehmet Akif Pirim. Whereas, throughout history, athletes have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Rize, including Kazım Ayvaz, and Mehmet Akif Pirim.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 1 globally memorable people born in Rize since 1700.