Samsun
Samsun is with more than 363,000 inhabitants, the largest Turkish city on the Black Sea and the capital of the province of Samsun.
Samsun is roughly in the middle of the Turkish Black Sea coast, about 850 km east of Istanbul and about 450 km north of Ankara. It is the main industrial and commercial city in the region.
The oldest finds that close to a settlement can come from the Copper Age. The first traditional name was Gasgalarca. Of the Milesiern got around 750 BC, the name of Amisos. In the late she was seat of a bishop. 1413 Sultan Mehmed I took the city and renamed it in Canik.
With the city Ataturk gained political importance, as this 19 May 1919 from Samsun to the liberation struggle against the occupation and called for division of Turkey.
Today is Samsun one of the largest centres for tobacco cultivation, and has the largest Turkish port on the Black Sea.
The emblem of Samsun is a statue of Kemal Ataturk.
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