Samsun.pdf

S amsun is a distinctive and important tourism

destination which is home to the thousand-

year cultural heritage of the Anatolia and

the Black Sea Region dating from the time of

Amazons to the Ottoman Period. With its natural

beauties including streams, waterfalls, lakes and

forests, its therapeutic thermal springs, its local

architecture, its rich cuisine and rousing festivals,

Samsun is a place of great interest. Situated in

the northernmost part of Anatolia, along the

shores of the Black Sea, the Samsun region

comprises a fertile land cut through by the deltas

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(ancient Amisos ) was founded on a spot known

colloquially as the ‘Mesopotamia of the Black Sea’.

Administratively it is subdivided into the counties

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Canik and Atakum. The city is a hub for rail, air,

sea and road transport systems, with easy links to

the cities along the Black Sea coast as well as the

central parts of Turkey.

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Amazons, lived in the Samsun,

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framed buildings with the original

features still intact,

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(Red River) is in Samsun,

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winter sports and ecotourism as well as

offering boundless sea, sand and sun,

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Turkish War of Liberation from Samsun…

S amsun was one of the important cities of the

region which was known as Paphlagonia

in antiquity. The earliest settlements

in Samsun dates back to the Old Stone Age

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the caves situated to the south of Tekkeköy.

Samsun also fostered settlements in the Middle

Stone Age (Mesolithic Era) and the New Stone

Age (Neolithic Era); and the Dündar Tepe Mound

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during the Chalcolithic (Copper) and Bronze

ages. The earliest known residents of Samsun

were Kaskians as mentioned in Hittite sources.

Following the Kaskians, who are believed to have

inhabited the region during the Late Bronze Age,

the legendary female warriors, the Amazons,

settled in the region near the Terme River around

1200 BC. In the 6th century BC Amisos (Samsun)

was founded as a colony by settlers from Milet

(Miletus). Afterwards came the Persians, and they

were followed by Alexander the Great and his

successors, the Roman and Byzantine Empires, the

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Sultanate; all in turn dominated the city. During

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the Ottoman rule. The most important role played

by Samsun in recent history was to be chosen

as the landing site for Mustafa Kemal Pasha

and his close associates on 19 May 1919, at the

initiation of the Turkish War of Liberation. Since

1936, when it was declared ‘the Commemoration

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festivities all over Turkey.

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