title: GEOGRAPHY IN THE FOLK SONGS OF WESTERN BLACK SEA REGION
abstract: Turkish Folk Music pieces taking their names from the people, containing the value judgment adopted by the people and mostly based on the true stories throughout the history of a region are one of the constituents of the culture which ensures the conveyance of culture from generation to generation in a spoken or written manner as a part of the tradition and allows the new generation to maintain the culture. The Folk Songs which is a substantial constituent of our spoken cultural heritage are the