Çarşamba

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Çarşamba ( Turkish for Wednesday) is a city in the Turkish province of Samsun. It forms the center of the district of the same name, among the total of 105 villages. The city is located 33 km from the largest port in the Black Sea Samsun. Through the city flows the Yeşilırmak and flows as Çarşamba Delta into the Black Sea.

Population figures

According to 2008 census, the city has 58,966 inhabitants of a total of 138 290 inhabitants of the district Çarşamba. The remaining population lives in the other villages and small towns. Çarşamba is of the 850 districts ( Ilce ) Turkey ranked 113 of population figures.

History

At about 4000 BC the area now Çarşamba was first settled, and was occasionally dominated by the Hittites. 670 BC the city came under the rule of the Milesians and became part of the colony of Amisus ( Samsun). In the 6th century BC the city was occupied by the Persians, 63 BC it was incorporated into the Roman Empire. In the 11th century Çarşamba was conquered by the Seljuk Turks. 1185 informed the Seljuk Sultan his kingdom for his eleven sons in eleven areas on. Rüknettin Süleyman Shah got the region in which also Çarşamba is. After the end of the Seljuk Empire was Çarşamba center of the Turkish Principality of Canik, which was led by five princes, of which the Taceddinoğulları ( sons Taceddins ) Çarşamba and environment dominated. In 1428 it was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire and temporarily managed by Yörgüç Paşa, Hoca Ali Pasha, Hazinedaroğulları. In the 17th century the river was a western Christian Quarter. By 1847 the area around Samsun from the province of Sivas was made ​​and incorporated into the province of Trabzon. In 1870 Çarşamba to the city ( kaza ) was charged. At this time the city belonged to 32 153 men, 9,200 families house ( a house or an apartment per family) and 119 villages.

At the Turkish War of Liberation, a majority of young people took part. Topal Osman Agha 1920 ( Osman the Lame ) was commissioned to make the Greek and Armenian groups in the mountains harmless. After the safety of urban residents was guaranteed, more people migrated gradually again after Çarşamba.

1923 Çarşamba became a ward ( Ilce ) of the newly founded Turkey. 1925 District Administration was established.

Famous people

• Sabri Sarıoğlu, football player