Rize Sports Hall

Rize Sports Hall
Rize Spor Salonu
Location	Rize, Turkey
Coordinates	41°01′37″N40°29′38″E / 41.02694°N 40.49389°E Coordinates: 41°01′37″N40°29′38″E / 41.02694°N 40.49389°E
Owner	Youth Services and Sports Directorate of Rize Province
Capacity	3,000
Opened	March 12, 2015;3 years ago

Last updated February 18, 2019

Rize Sports Hall (Turkish : Rize Spor Salonu) is a multi-sport indoor arena in Rize, [Turkey. Built in 2015, it is owned by the Youth Services and Sports Directorate of Rize Province. The sports hall has a seating capacity of 3,000. It is situated in a sports complex.

Turkish, also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 10–15 million native speakers in Southeast Europe and 60–65 million native speakers in Western Asia. Outside Turkey, significant smaller groups of speakers exist in Germany, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested that the European Union add Turkish as an official EU language, even though Turkey is not a member state.

Rize is the capital city of Rize Province in the eastern part of the Black Sea Region of Turkey.

Rize Province is a province of northeast Turkey, on the eastern Black Sea coast between Trabzon and Artvin. The province of Erzurum is to the south. it was formerly known as Lazistan, the designation of the term of Lazistan was officially banned in 1926, by Kemalists. Its capital is the city of Rize. The province is home to Laz, Hemshin, Turkish people and Georgian communities. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spent his early childhood in Rize, where his father was a member of the Turkish Coast Guard.

The construction of the sport complex began on March 23, 2012 with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by government ministers.^[1] The construction cost of the project was given with 35 million (approx. US$ 19.5 million as of March 2012).^[2] The facility was completed on March 12, 2015. It hosted sport wrestling events and basketball matches.^[3]

The sports hall hosted the 2016 European Women's Handball Championship qualification match of Turkey against Denmark on June 1, 2016.^[4]

This article describes the qualification for the 2016 European Women's Handball Championship.

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References

↑ "Rize'de Spor Salonu ve Olimpik Yüzme Havuzunun Temel Atma Töreni" (in Turkish). Hayati Yazıcı. 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
↑ "Spor Kompleksinin Temeli Atıldı" (in Turkish). Rizedeyiz. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
↑ "Rize'nin Yeni Spor Tesisleri Hizmete Açıldı". Haberci 53 (in Turkish). 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
↑ "Turkey 23:26 Denmark". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 2016-06-02.

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[hy-1] "Rize'de Spor Salonu ve Olimpik Yüzme Havuzunun Temel Atma Töreni" (in Turkish). Hayati Yazıcı. 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2016-06-02.

[r-2] "Spor Kompleksinin Temeli Atıldı" (in Turkish). Rizedeyiz. Retrieved 2016-06-02.

[h53-3] "Rize'nin Yeni Spor Tesisleri Hizmete Açıldı". Haberci 53 (in Turkish). 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2016-06-02.

[ehf-4] "Turkey 23:26 Denmark". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 2016-06-02.