Samsun Province
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Samsun is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast with a population of 1,209,137 (2000). Its adjacent provinces are Sinop to the northwest, Çorum to the west, Amasya to the south, Tokat to the southeast, and Ordu to the east. Its traffic code is 55.
The provincial capital is Samsun, one of the most populated cities in Turkey and the largest and busiest port in the Black Sea.
History
The founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, started the Turkish War of Independence here on May 19 1919.External links
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| Districts of Samsun |
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| Samsun | Alaçam | Asarcık | Ayvacık | Bafra | Çarşamba | Havza | Kavak | Ladik | Ondokuzmayıs | Salıpazarı | Tekkeköy | Terme | Vezirköprü | Yakakent | ||
| Provinces of Turkey |
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| Adana | Adiyaman | Afyonkarahisar | Agri | Aksaray | Amasya | Ankara | Antalya | Ardahan | Artvin | Aydin | Balikesir | Bartin | Batman | Bayburt | Bilecik |Bingöl | Bitlis | Bolu | Burdur | Bursa | Çanakkale | Çankiri | Çorum | Denizli | Diyarbakir | Düzce |Edirne | Elazig | Erzincan | Erzurum | Eskisehir | Gaziantep | Giresun | Gümüshane | Hakkari | Hatay | Igdir | Isparta | Içel | Istanbul | Izmir | Kahramanmaras | Karabük | Karaman | Kars | Kastamonu | Kayseri | Kilis | Kirikkale | Kirklareli | Kirsehir | Kocaeli | Konya | Kütahya | Malatya | Manisa | Mardin | Mugla | Mus | Nevsehir | Nigde | Ordu | Osmaniye | Rize | Sakarya | Samsun | Sanliurfa | Siirt | Sinop | Sirnak | Sivas | Tekirdag | Tokat | Trabzon | Tunceli | Usak | Van | Yalova | Yozgat | Zonguldak | |
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