Giresun - Turkey
Black Sea Region - north-eastern Turkey. Known to the Ancient Greeks as Choerades or Phamacia and later as Kerasous or Cerasus ('horn for peninsula). The English word cherry, French cherise, Spanish cereza, southern Italian dialect cerasa - all come from the classical greek for cherry which has been identified with Cerasus. The cherry was first exported to Europe from Cerasus in Roman times
Picture No
10270318
Media ID
45645531
Size
4704px x 3073px
(3.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1913
