Surmene

Surmene is a town and an area of Trabzon Province operating at a profit Sea district of Turkey. In antiquated occasions it was otherwise called Hyssus or Hyssos and Issiporto. The chairman is Rahmi Ustun. The little town of Surmene is arranged somewhere in the range of 40 km east of Trabzon. Referred to in days of yore likewise as Susarmia or Augustopolis, it lies on the River Kora and is best known as where Xenophon and his Ten Thousand fell debilitated in the wake of eating wild nectar, an occasion which was affirmed by the neighborhood individuals. In the town of Surmene Kastil, 5 km toward the west of Surmene, stands a destroyed medieval château and in addition the great 18th century Yakupoglu Konagı manor.

It was once in the past the seat of the Yakupoglu family, who lived here as leaders of the encompassing district generally free of impedance from the Sublime Porte in Istanbul. Surmene province has had a considerable measure instructive organization since the primary long stretches of the Republic. Starting today, Surmene has a staff, five professional secondary schools, a secondary school and an Anatolian secondary school. In addition, there are numerous elementary schools in the district. Additionally there is an understudy residence for college understudies' safe house in the province.