Akçaabat

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Akçaabat ( in ancient Platana ) is the name of a district town and a district in the northern Turkish province of Trabzon. The city, which is located on the Black Sea, was founded by Greek colonists from Miletus in the 7th century BC. Probably because of the numerous occurrences of plane trees Platana the colony was called. Akçaabat later was for centuries part of the Ottoman Empire and was also Polathane ( Eisenheim ) called, which is probably a corruption of the original Greek name. Akçaabat has 40 589 and County 113 117 inhabitants ( 2012).

Besides Akçaabat there are fourteen other municipalities and 49 villages in the district.

Sports

The City and County have with the football club Akçaabat Sebatspor since the 1923er years a football team, the region mainly in the second and third largest Turkish league, today TFF 1 Lig and Lig TFF 2, represented. Thus, the club was founded well before the more famous club in the province of Trabzon, Trabzonspor before. His most successful period in the club had from 2003 to 2005 in which one of the highest in the Turkish league, the Superliga, participated for two seasons in the competition. This was Sebatspor except the teams from the major cities of Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara, the first county team in the Turkish football, which made ​​it to the Süper Lig. Managed until the summer of 2012 with Akhisar Belediyespor another team from a county to participate. In summer 2012, the club was relegated from the fourth division and the lowest Turkish professional league, the third TFF Lig, from plays and since then in the regional amateur league, which in turn corresponds to the fifth highest in the Turkish league.

Personalities

  • Sabahattin Eyüboğlu (1909-1973), writer, literary critic and translator
  • Ömer Özcan Kadir (1952-2013), football player and coach
  • Osman Pepe ( * 1954), politician
  • Metin Aktas ( b. 1977 ), the Turkish football goalkeeper
  • Erhan Çelenk (* 1989), the Turkish football player
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