{{about|the town in Rize Province||Hemshin (disambiguation){{!}}Hemshin}} {{Infobox Turkey place | type = municipality | name = Hemşin | other_name = Hamshen • Համշեն | image_skyline = La verdure d'Hemşin (Bilen köyü).jpg | image_caption = | image_shield = | coordinates = {{coord|41|03|01|N|40|54|06|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | province = Rize | district = Hemşin | leader_party = AKP | leader_name = Halim Kazım Bekar | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = <ref name=tuik/> | population_total = 1472 | population_as_of = 2021 | postal_code = 53550 | area_code = | website = {{url|http://www.hemsin.bel.tr/}} | blank1_name = Climate | blank1_info = Cfb }} '''Hemşin''' (Armenian: Համշէն ''Hamshen'' or Համամաշէն ''Hamamashen'', literally "Hamam's Hamlet"; Laz and Georgian: ზუგა ''Zuga''), is a town in Rize Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 57 km from the city of Rize. It is the seat of Hemşin District.<ref name=ilce>[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx İlçe Belediyesi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706215822/https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx |date=2015-07-06 }}, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 30 January 2023.</ref> Its population is 1,472 (2021).<ref name=tuik>{{Cite web |title=Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021|url=https://www.tuik.gov.tr/indir/duyuru/favori_raporlar.xlsx |access-date=30 January 2023|publisher=TÜİK|language=tr |format=XLS}}</ref>
==History== {{Main|Rize Province}} As part of the Rize province, Hemshin had been a refuge for some Cimmerians{{citation needed|date=February 2017}} and was a site of early Greek settlements and once part of the Roman Empire and the succeeding Byzantine Empire.
In the 8th century, Armenian Prince Hamam, his father Prince Shapuh Amatuni, and their people migrated north to the Black Sea region in order to escape Arab invasions of Vaspurakan. They settled in the ruined city of Tambur and its surrounding villages. Prince Hamam rebuilt the city and named it Hamamshen ("Hamam's hamlet" in Armenian), this becoming the nucleus of the modern district.
This Principality of Hamamshen existed until the 14th century, when it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
==Demographics== {{main|Hemshin peoples}} The Hemshin peoples ({{langx|hy|Համշէնցիներ}}, {{lang|hy-latn|Hamshentsiner}}; {{langx|tr|Hemşinliler}}) are a diverse group of peoples who in the past or present have been affiliated with the region.<ref name="Bert Vaux pp.1-2">Bert Vaux. ''Hemshinli: The Forgotten Black Sea Armenians''. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2001, pp. 1-2, 4-5.</ref><ref name="Peter Alford Andrews 1989. pp. 476-477">Peter Alford Andrews, ''Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey''. Wiesbaden, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1989, pp. 476-477, 483-485, 491.</ref><ref>Simonian, Hovann H. "Hemshin from Islamicization to the End of the Nineteenth Century" in ''The Hemshin: History, society and identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey''. Hovann H. Simonian (ed.) London: Routledge, 2007, p. 80.</ref><ref>Hachikian, Hagop. "Notes on the Historical Geography and Present Territorial Distribution of the Hemshinili", in ''The Hemshin'', pp. 146-147.</ref>
==Climate== Hemşin has an oceanic climate (Köppen: ''Cfb'').
{{Weather box |location = Hemşin |metric first = yes |single line = yes |Jan mean C = 3.7 |Feb mean C = 4.4 |Mar mean C = 6.4 |Apr mean C = 10.8 |May mean C = 14.6 |Jun mean C = 18.4 |Jul mean C = 21.2 |Aug mean C = 21.3 |Sep mean C = 18.5 |Oct mean C = 14.2 |Nov mean C = 9.9 |Dec mean C = 6.0 |year mean C = 12.5 |Jan precipitation mm = 139 |Feb precipitation mm = 107 |Mar precipitation mm = 94 |Apr precipitation mm = 77 |May precipitation mm = 78 |Jun precipitation mm = 109 |Jul precipitation mm = 86 |Aug precipitation mm = 106 |Sep precipitation mm = 136 |Oct precipitation mm = 174 |Nov precipitation mm = 156 |Dec precipitation mm = 161 |year precipitation mm = |source 1 = Climate-Data.org<ref name = "Climate-Data.org"> {{cite web |url=http://en.climate-data.org/location/30519/ |title = Climate: Hemşin |accessdate = 14 April 2014 |publisher = Climate-Data.org}}</ref> }}
==See also== * Hemshin peoples * Amatuni * Çamlıhemşin * Principality of Hamamshen
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.hamshen.org/forum '''www.Hamshen.org''' a multi-language discussion forum] * [http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Hamshen Armenian History and Presence in Hemşin]
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