Zigana Pass

The Zigana Pass is a mountain pass situated on the Pontic Mountains in Gümüşhane Province close to its border with Trabzon Province in northeastern Turkey. The pass, at above sea level, is on the route at a distance of from Gümüşhane and from Trabzon at the Black Sea coast. The pass is snow-covered five months a year.
The Zigana Tunnel under the pass, at an elevation of above sea level, is long, wide and has a maximum height of. It is one of longest tunnels in the country.
The namesake village of Zigana, located southwest of the tunnel, is a popular ski-resort.
Nearby Lake Limni is reachable on foot by a trail or by car on a road via Kalkanlı village.
On 25 January 2009, 11 hikers on Mount Zigana died in an avalanche.
Zingana pass is the pass through which the Ten Thousand of Xenophon passed through on their way out of Persia and shouted Thalatta! Thalatta! when they saw the coast of Trabzon at the Black Sea.