Borçka

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Borçka is a city in the province of Artvin in northeastern Turkey. The town has 10,702 inhabitants Borçka and the entire district Borçka 24 343 (2009). The district is located in the north of the province, bordering the Georgian Autonomous Republic of Adjara.

Location

Borçka located about 35 kilometers east of the Black Sea coastal town of Hopa. 1.5 km south of the town is on the river Çoruh Borçka Dam. Through the valley of the expressway from Hopa Artvin leads to a side road branches off in a southwesterly direction into Murgul Ostpontische Mountains from.

History and cityscape

1364 Before Borçka temporarily belonged to the Empire of Trebizond. Sources from this period mention probably the place under the name Bourzo. From the 19th century, a river bridge remained.

The multi-storey apartment blocks uniforms town on both sides of Çoruh were almost all built after the 1970s. The older, its time unusually large, traditional wooden houses have disappeared from the townscape. The business center with the bus stop located on the western side of the valley, bounded by steep, wooded hills. Three bridges in the area of the village cross the river. Immediately upstream of the city of Çoruh is dammed to generate electricity.

Remains of a small medieval fortress can be seen on the west bank of the Çoruh. The enclosing walls enclosed an approximately circular area with 30 meters in diameter. To the east of the semicircular apse of a chapel made ​​a part of the castle wall.

Residential area on the east bank of the Çoruh

Sons and daughters of the town

• Davut Dursun ( born 1953 ), Chairman of RTÜK
• Sener Özbayraklı (* 1990), the Turkish football player