Çarşamba (source: http://www.eskiturkiye.net/2587/carsamba-samsun#lg=0&slide=0) Çarşamba (Trk.: ‘Wednesday’; Grk.: Tsarsambas or Tsartsambas) is a town built on the banks of the Yeşilırmak River (Grk.: Iris river), located approximately 35km south east of Samsun, 30 km west of Terme and 45 km W-SW of Ünye. History Around 4,000 B.C., the area of today’s Çarşamba was first settled and at times dominated by the Hittites. In 670 B.C. the city came under the rule of the Milesians and became part of the Greek colony of Amisos (Samsun). In the 6th century B.C. the Persians occupied it and in 63 B.C. it was incorporated into the Roman Empire. [...]
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Kaza Fatsa – Φάτσα
Fatsa (source: http://www.eskiturkiye.net/141/fatsa#lg=0&slide=0) The Toponym The oldest recorded name of the town is Polemonion (Ancient Grk.: Πολεμώνιον, Latinized as Polemonium), after Polemon I of Pontos, the Roman client king appointed by Mark Antony. A derivative of Polemonion, i.e. Bolaman, is the modern name of the river passing through Fatsa (the ancient Sidenus). The present name, Fatsa, has been influenced by modern Greek Φάτσα or Φάτσα Πόντου (φἀτσα is derived from Italian faccia), which translates as ‘face or housefront on the sea’, but has in fact mutated from Fanizan, the name of the daughter of King Pharnaces II of Pontos, through Fanise, Phadisana [...]
Kaza Ünye / Oinoy – Οἰνόη / Enoy
Üniye (1875; photo: Dimitriy Ivanovich Yermakov; source: http://www.eskiturkiye.net/556/unye-1875-foto-dmitri-ivanovich-yermakov#lg=0&slide=0) Toponym The name of the kaza and its capital has evolved from the Greek Oinoe (pronounced Enoy) through Oinaion, Unieh, Unie and Unia to the current Ünye. Ünye (source: http://www.eskiturkiye.net/2870/unye-ordu#lg=0&slide=0) History The history of the port town Ünye goes back to the Hittite period in the 15th century B.C., followed by the Kaskians (also Kashka, Kaska), Scythians, Milesians, Persians and Romans. During Greco-Roman times, it was called Oenoe and was a port town of Pontos, at the mouth of the river Genius. It was also ruled by the Sultanate of Rum between 1188-1204, 1214-1228 and 1230-1243, the Empire [...]
Kaza Bafra / Πάφρα – Pafra / Paúra
The homonymous capital city of the kaza Bafra is located 47 km NW of Samsun and 80 km SE of Sinope. The town is built on the right-hand side of the Kızıl Irmak River (ancient Gr: Ἅλυς – Halys‘) and along a road that connects it with Samsun and Sinope. Administratively, Bafra was part of the mutesaraflik (sancak) of Samsun and the valilik and subsequent province (vilayet) of Trebizond. Ecclesiastically it belonged to the Diocese of Amaseia. Tobacco Transport from Pafra (Bafra), 1913 (Source: http://www.efxinospontos.org/images/pontosphotos/places/pafra_tabacco_1913.jpg) Toponym The ancient Greek name variant Paúra was first documented in 1150, the Turkish variant Bafra in 1485.[1] Bafra [...]
Kaza Terme / Thermi / Thermohonta
The Toponym Situated in the southeast of the city of Samsun, Terme (formerly spelled Termeh; Ancient Grk.: Thérmai – Θέρμαι; ‘spa’) is named after the Terme River (Grk: Thermodon – Θερμώδων); the latter place-name is documented since 600 B.C. Scholars have identified Terme or its environs as the site of the ancient city of Themiskyra (Θεμίσκυρα). Since 1835, the capital of the kaza was also known as Fenk (from Armenian ‘vank’ – ‘monastery’). The district center is still known as Fenk Mahallesi.[1] Armenian Population “Of the 3,427 Armenians in this kaza in 1914, only some 100 people lived in the principal town of [...]