İyidere

	Location of İyidere within Turkey.
	Coordinates: 41°0′43″N 40°21′43″E / 41.01194°N 40.36194°E
Country	Turkey
Region	Black Sea
Province	Rize
	Government
- Mayor	Ahmet Mete
	Area
- Total	25 km2 (9.7 sq mi)
	Population
- Total	10,074
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	53
Area code(s)	(0090)+ 464
Licence plate	53
Website	http://www.iyidere.gov.tr/

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İyidere is a town and district of Rize Province on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey, 14 km from the city of Rize.

Formerly known as Aspet, İyidere is a green rural district. The local economy depends on growing and processing tea, plus some other farming and fishing.

[edit] History

See Rize Province for the history of the area, once part of the trading network of the Ancient Greeks based in Miletos, who founded the port of İyidere, then part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the Empire of Trebizond until it was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Mehmet II in 1461.