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Giresungērĕsoon', city (1990 pop. 67,536), capital of Giresun prov., NE Turkey, a port on the Black Sea. It is the trade center for a farm region in which corn, filberts, beans, and potatoes are produced. Known as Cerasus, the city was famous in ancient times for its cherry trees. From there the Roman general Lucullus is said to have introduced (1st cent. B.C.) the cherry tree into Italy. The English word cherry is derived from the name of the city, which formerly also appeared as Kerasun.
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Giresun is the provincial capital of Giresun Province in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about west of the city of Trabzon.
Giresun was known to the ancient Greeks as Choerades or Pharnacia and later as Kerasous or Cerasus, Özhan Öztürk. Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük. 2 Cilt. Heyamola Publishing. Istanbul.2005 ISBN 975-6121-00-9
The name later mutated into Kerasunt.
The English word cherry, French cerise, Spanish cereza, and Southern Italian dialect cerasa all come from Classical Greek κέρασος 'cherry', which has been identified with Cerasus. The cherry was first...more »
