Giresun Adasi

The Island of the Amazons

This one and only island along the whole south coast of the Black Sea is a place of mystic appearance. Even today cultic rites are performed there, it seems that there is a continuity from the Bronze Age till today. It was the sacred island of the Amazons, in the Middle Ages there has been a Byzantine monastery, and today it is a place of pre-islamic rites. There is the mystic Stone of Hamza where wishes shall become true, and every year there is a festival which is dominated by women.

Giresun Adasi from the distance

It is a thickly wooded island

Probably the place of worship of the Amazons

The mystic Stone of Hamza

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