Population By 1911, of the nearly 120,000 inhabitants of the Samsun kaza (district), around 65% were Greek.[1] City of Samsun / Sampsounta – Σαμψούντα /Amisós – Αμισός Samsun: Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Holy Trinity (Haghia Triada) View on Samsun (Source: http://www.karalahana.com/2015/10/23/a-history-of-amisos-samsun/) History Byzantine and Seljuk Era During the late antiquity and throughout the Byzantine era, Amisos was a significant town. Around 860 AD it was administratively a tourma in the thema Armeniakon. Amisos played a key role in Byzantine economy. In the second half of the 9th and throughout the 10th century it was a was an export center for cereals. During this period fiscal officials were stationed in the [...]
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Kaza Ordu / Altınordu / Κοτύωρα – Kotyora
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial (Berlin): Commemorative Plate for Ordu (Kotyora) [...]
Kaza Giresun / Kerasounta – Κερασούντα
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative plate for Giresun (Kerasounta) View on Kerasounta (drawn by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, around 1700; published 1717) Toponym Giresun was known to the ancient Greeks as Choerades or more prominently as Kerasous (Κερασοῦς). The place name Kerasounta (also: Kerasunda, Kerasun; Trk.: Giresun) is usually derived from the Greek κερασός (kerasós + -ουντ (a place marker). The English cherry, French cerise, Spanish cereza, Persian گیلاس (gilas) and Turkish kiraz, among countless others, all come from Ancient Greek κερασός ‘cherry tree’. According to Pliny, the cherry was first exported from Kerasous to Europe by the Roman commander Lucullus. Another explanation relates [...]
Sancak Samsun / Σαμψούντα – Sampsounta / Canik
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative plate for Samsun (Sampsounta) The district (sancak) was divided administratively or from west to east into the six kazas Bafra, Samsun, Çarşamba, Terme, Ünye (Grk: Oinoy) and Fatsa. The Toponym Samsun was known as Amisós by Greeks and Byzantines, Missos by Romans, Simisso by Genoese and then Samsun by Seljuk and Ottoman Turks. It [...]
Kaza Trebizond / Trapezounta – Τραπεζούντα / Trabzon
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative plate for Trebizond (Trapezounta) The Armenian Church of Trabzon, used as an auction site of confiscated Armenian goods during the war and after the Armenian Genocide in 1918 (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide#/media/File:TrabzonAuction.jpg) [...]