The Black Sea Region (Turkish: Karadeniz Bölgesi) is one of Turkey's seven census-defined geographical regions (bölge). It is bordered by the Marmara Region to the west, the Central Anatolia Region to the south, the Eastern Anatolia Region to the southeast, the Republic of Georgia to the northeast, and the Black Sea to the north.
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“This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack,”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
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Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe.””
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In the deep wide sea of Misery,
Or the mariner, worn and wan,
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—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
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—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)