Trabzon Province Location of Trabzon Province Trabzon is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast . It has a population of 979 , 081 ( 2000 census ) . Neighboring provinces are Giresun to the west , Gümüşhane to the southwest , Bayburt to the southeast and Rize to the east . The provincial capital is Trabzon city , and the traffic code is 61 . The province is home to a small community of Muslim Pontic Greek -speakers . History The city was founded , as Trapezus , by Greek colonists from Sinop . An important Roman and Byzantine centre , it was the capital of the Empire of Trebizond from 1204 to 1461 . Trabzon was made part of the Ottoman Empire by Mehmet the Conqueror in 1461 . It was initially a sanjak then gained the status of eyalet and finally became a vilayet in 1868 . Subprovinces Traditional rural Pontic house in Livera village of Maçka district Trabzon province has 17 subprovinces ( in Turkish : İlçe ) , not counting the central subprovince which carries the province 's name . Nine of these are along the 114 km coast line : ( From West to East ) Beşikdüzü , Vakfıkebir , Çarşıbaşı , Akçaabat , Yomra , Arsin , Araklı , Sürmene and Of . The remaining subprovinces are located inland : Tonya , Düzköy , Şalpazarı , Maçka , Köprübaşı , Dernekpazarı , Hayrat and Çaykara . Among these Beşikdüzü and Şalpazarı gained subprovince status in 1988 , and Çarşıbaşı , Düzköy , Köprübaşı , Dernekpazarı and Hayrat in 1990 . Population History 2000 - 979 , 081 1997 - 858 , 687 1990 - 795 , 849 1985 - 786 , 194 1980 - 731 , 045 1975 - 719 , 008 1970 - 659 , 120 1965 - 595 , 782 1960 - 532 , 999 1955 - 462 , 249 1950 - 420 , 279 1945 - 395 , 733 1940 - 390 , 733 1935 - 360 , 679 1927 - 290 , 303 Ottoman era 1903 census ( This refers to a previous province which covered a wider area of NE Turkey ) Muslim 972 , 981 ( 489 , 890 male , 483 , 091 female ) Greek Orthodox 185 , 784 ( 93 , 871 male , 91 , 913 female ) Armenian Gregorian 50 , 233 ( 25 , 444 male , 24 , 789 female ) Armenian Catholic 1 , 506 ( 755 male , 751 female ) Armenian Protestant 1 , 140 ( 575 male , 565 female ) TOTAL 1 , 211 , 644 ( 610 , 535 male , 601 , 109 female ) See also Pontic Greeks External links Governor 's web site Pictures of the capital of this province Trabzon-Besikduzu Trabzon-Yomra A Humour web pages from Trabzon Districts of Trabzon Trabzon | Akçaabat | Araklı | Arsin | Beşikdüzü | Çarşıbaşı | Çaykara | Dernekpazarı | Düzköy | Hayrat | Köprübaşı | Maçka | Of | Sürmene | Şalpazarı | Tonya | Vakfıkebir | Yomra Provinces of Turkey Adana | Adıyaman | Afyonkarahisar | Ağrı | Aksaray | Amasya | Ankara | Antalya | Ardahan | Artvin | Aydın | Balıkesir | Bartın | Batman | Bayburt | Bilecik | Bingöl | Bitlis | Bolu | Burdur | Bursa | Çanakkale | Çankiri | Çorum | Denizli | Diyarbakır | Düzce | Edirne | Elazığ | Erzincan | Erzurum | Eskişehir | Gaziantep | Giresun | Gümüşhane | Hakkari | Hatay | Iğdır | Isparta | Istanbul | Izmir | Kahramanmaraş | Karabük | Karaman | Kars | Kastamonu | Kayseri | Kilis | Kırıkkale | Kırklareli | Kırşehir | Kocaeli | Konya | Kütahya | Malatya | Manisa | Mardin | Mersin | Muğla | Muş | Nevşehir | Niğde | Ordu | Osmaniye | Rize | Sakarya | Samsun | Şanlıurfa | Siirt | Sinop | Şırnak | Sivas | Tekirdağ | Tokat | Trabzon | Tunceli | Uşak | Van | Yalova | Yozgat | Zonguldak Categories : Districts of Trabzon | Provinces of Turkey | Trabzon In other languages : Bosanski | Deutsch | Español | Français | Bahasa Indonesia | Nederlands | Svenska | Türkçe 