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Samsun, historically Amisus, city, capital of Samsun il(province), northern Turkey. The largest city on the southern coast of the Black Sea, Samsun lies between the deltas of the Kızıl and Yeşil rivers.

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Amisus, which stood on a promontory just northwest of the modern city centre, was founded in the 7th century BCE; after Sinope (modern Sinop) it was the most flourishing Milesian colony on the Euxine (Black) Sea. After Alexander the Great’s conquest of Asia Minor (Anatolia) in the 4th century BCE, Amisus came under the kings of Pontus and continued to prosper until it was burned down by its defenders when it was captured by the Romans in 71 BCE.

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Known as Amisos under the Byzantines, it was renamed Samsun by the Seljuq Turks when they took it in the second half of the 12th century. Under Seljuq rule, it surpassed Sinope as a centre of trade between Europe and Central Asia; a large trading colony of Genoese was established there. Taken by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I at the end of the 14th century, it reverted to the Turkmen Candarprincipality after the Ottoman defeat at the hands of the conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) in 1402. The city was burned by the Genoese before the Ottomans recaptured it in 1425. The landing of Mustafa Kemal (later called Atatürk) at Samsun on May 19, 1919, to organize national resistance marked the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence and heralded the establishment of the republic in 1923.

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People always were attracted by the combination of fertile ground and shallow waters for a harbor, due to this Samsun has a long history and its myths go back even longer. According to ancient myths the delta east of Samsun was the land of the Amazons. The geographer Strabo (64 BC-23 AD) describes the Amazons as a people of female warriors.

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In order to shoot easily with bow and arrow they had one of their breast removed. Amazon is derived from the old Greek and means 'without breasts'. The Amazons used men from neighboring peoples to reproduce themselves and male children were sent to neighboring peoples. The myths situate the period of theAmazons about 1200 BC.

Fiction or non fiction, fact is that the Amazons' myth spread again under the conquerors in South America. Along world's biggest river a people of female warriors should live. The female warriors were never found but the river was named the Amazon.

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There are many famous dishes, beverages, pastries and sweets typical og Samsun province.
We will aslo try to describe local specialties of Samsun province.

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Oymaağaç Kebabı
Samsun Pidesi
Mısır Çorbası
Halıçka
Baklalı Yaprak Dolması
Lahana Sarması
Kaz Pilavı
Kaz Asması
Katık Böreği
Memecik
Katıklı Ekmek
Katık Sündürmesi