East of Samsun, the area around Trabzon is world-renowned for the production of hazelnuts, and farther east the Rize region has numerous tea plantations.

" They replied, " the third day of the occupation of Izmir ", " Ankara meeting ", " Ismet Pasha telegraphed from Lausanne ", " Golden Horn Conference ", " Turco-British negotiations over Iraq ", " Progressive Republican Party was banned " ... even Atatürk's close friends couldn't remember Mustafa Kemal's landing at Samsun.

The tobacco is mostly a blend of Samsun and İzmir Turkish tobacco and Virginia tobacco.

The day is celebrated in honor of the arrival of Kemal Atatürk to Samsun on May 19, 1919, when the Turkish War of Independence began.

Greece occupied Smyrna / İzmir on 15 May 1919, while Mustafa Kemal Pasha ( later Atatürk ), who was to become the leader of the Turkish opposition to the Treaty of Sèvres, landed in Samsun on May 19, 1919, an action that is regarded as the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence.

The largest Adyghe diaspora community today is in Turkey, especially in Samsun, Kahramanmaraş, Kayseri, Bandırma and Düzce.

While kuymak / muhlama is made with cornmeal, cheese and butter, a coarse, almost bulgur size version of broken ( or ground ) dried maize is used to prepare " çakıldak ", a kind of dolma or sarma made with kale leaves, especially in the central-eastern Black Sea Region provinces of Samsun, Ordu and around.

The Terme River (;, Thermōdōn ) is in the border of Terme district, located in central northern Turkey between the cities of Ordu and Samsun.

Samsun Province () is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast with a population of 1, 252, 693 ( 2010 ).

The provincial capital is Samsun, one of the most populated cities in Turkey and the largest and busiest port in the Black Sea.

Samsun province is divided into 17 districts four of which are actually included in the municipality of Samsun city ( shown in boldface letters ).

The legends of Theodore of Amasea recount that he was a recruit serving in the Roman army at Amasea, which is the modern Amasya in Northern Turkey, about south of the Black Sea coast at Sinope and Samsun.

Tanju Çolak ( born 10 November 1963 in Samsun ) is a retired Turkish footballer, who played as a striker.

The stadium is named after the date May 19, 1919, when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk arrived at Samsun to start the Turkish War of Independence.

The peoples of the Anatolian Pontic coast, east of Trabzon from Samsun to Rize Pazar, hold the celebration on 20 May ( or 7 May in the Hegirian calendar ); and in Sürmene, it is called " Litropi.

* Turkish is a blend that mainly consists of Turkish Tobaccos like Yenidje, Samsun, Bafra etc.

Mycale, also Mykale and Mycali (), called Samsun Daği and Dilek Daği in modern Turkey, is a mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey, north of the mouth of the Maeander and divided from the Greek island of Samos by the 1300 metre wide Samos Strait.

Orhan Gencebay ( born August 4, 1944 in Samsun, Turkey as Orhan Kencebay ) is a Turkish musician, bağlama virtuoso, composer, singer, arranger, music producer, music director, and actor.

Samsunspor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Samsun.

19 May the Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day () or simply Youth Day ( Gençlik Bayramı ), is an annual Turkish national holiday celebrated on May 19 to commemorate Mustafa Kemal's landing at Samsun on May 19, 1919, which is regarded as the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence in the official historiography.

The Isfendiyarids or Isfendiyarid dynasty ( Modern Turkish: İsfendiyaroğulları, İsfendiyaroğulları Beyliği ), also known as the Principality of Isfendiyar and Beylik of Isfendiyar ( İsfendiyar Beyliği ), its former name was Jandarids or Principality of Jandar ( Candaroğulları, Candaroğulları Beyliği ), was an Anatolian beylik that ruled principally in the regions corresponding to present-day Kastamonu and Sinop provinces of Turkey, also covering parts of Zonguldak, Bartın, Karabük, Samsun, Bolu, Ankara and Çankırı provinces, between 1292 – 1461, in the Black Sea region of modern day Turkey.

The river flows about 50 km east of the coastal city Samsun into the Black Sea.

The nearby province Sivas was then inhabited by many Genoese merchants, transporting the goods that would arrive from the east and the south to their ports in Trabzon, Samsun and Sinop.

Its adjacent provinces are Samsun to the northwest, Tokat to the southwest, Sivas to the south, and Giresun to the east.

There are numerous colonies of Sandžak Bosniaks in Turkey, in and around Edirne, Istanbul, Adapazarı ,( İzmir )( Çeşme peninsula ) Bursa, and Samsun among others.

There are also Ilıca named municipalities in the following provinces of Turkey: Samsun,

Its adjacent provinces are Kastamonu on the west, Çorum on the south, and Samsun on the southeast.

The club colours are red and white, and they play their home matches at Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium.

Important cities along the coast include Batumi, Burgas, Constanța, Giresun, Hopa, Istanbul, Kerch, Mangalia, Năvodari, Novorossiysk, Odessa, Ordu, Poti, Rize, Samsun, Sevastopol, Sochi, Sukhumi, Trabzon, Varna, Yalta and Zonguldak.

* May 19 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, marking the start of the Turkish War of Independence.

Bennett approved the permission certificate to M. Kemal Atatürk to Samsun, that he started Turkish Independence struggle there.

Turkish revolutionaries led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a successful Ottoman commander, rejected the terms enforced at Sèvres and under the guise of General Inspector of the Ottoman Army, left Istanbul for Samsun to organize the remaining Ottoman forces to resist the terms of the treaty.

: A master-crafted blend of only the finest hand-picked Samsun & Izmir Turkish tobaccos with a robust domestic tobacco blend creates Camel's distinctive flavor and world-class smoothness.

File: Atatürk02. jpg | Statue of Atatürk in Samsun by Heinrich Krippel ( 1931 ).

Between 1316 and 1332 Genoa established the colonies of La Tana and Samsun in the Black Sea.

These refugees arrived in Kallithea mainly from the south Black Sea ( Pontus ), from ancient Greek cities such as Sinope ( now Sinop, Turkey ), Sampsus ( now Samsun, Turkey ), Kerasus ( now Giresun, Turkey ), Trapezous-Trebizond ( now Trabzon, Turkey ), Tripolis ( now Tirebolu, Turkey ), Argyroupolis ( now Gümüshane, Turkey ) and other remnants of the late Byzantine Empire.

David Komnenos, the younger brother of Alexios, expanded rapidly to the west, occupying first Sinope, then Paphlagonia and Heraclea Pontica ( modern Samsun province and the coastal regions of Kastamonu, Bartın and Zonguldak ) until his territory bordered the Empire of Nicaea founded by Theodore I Laskaris.

In future Ceyhan will be also a natural gas hub for a planned pipeline constructed parallel to the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline, and for a planned extension of the Blue Stream Gas Pipeline to from Samsun to Ceyhan.

Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people.

The town of Nibutani ( Ainu: Niputay ) in Hidaka area ( Hokkaido prefecture ) has a number of Ainu households and a visit to some of the Ainu owned craft shops close to the Ainu museums ( there are two of them in Nibutani ) is an opportunity to interact with the Ainu people.

Until the establishment of the prison, the area was entirely dependent on agriculture, and, after the close of the prison, the town continued economically dependent on agriculture.

More recently, a discovery of Roman artefacts in Kings Norton close to Metchley Camp has suggested another possibility, and a thorough examination of a stretch of Watling Street between St. Albans, Boudica's last known location, and the Fosse Way junction has suggested the Cuttle Mill area of Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, which has topography very closely matching that described by Tacitus of the scene of the battle.

These laws describe the behaviour of a black hole in close analogy to the laws of thermodynamics by relating mass to energy, area to entropy, and surface gravity to temperature.

Standing at above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.

In 1996, the Turkish Cypriot area showed a close, but smaller ratio of paved to unpaved with about 1, 370 km out of 2, 350 km paved and 980 km unpaved.

Players identify their Field bets by placing them in the Field area directly in front of them or as close to their position as possible.

If is any unit vector, the projection of the curl of F onto is defined to be the limiting value of a closed line integral in a plane orthogonal to as the path used in the integral becomes infinitesimally close to the point, divided by the area enclosed.

Despite these efforts, Cairo's population has doubled since the 1960s, reaching close to seven million ( with an additional ten million in its urban area ).

Brâncuși grew up in the village of Hobiţa, Gorj, near Târgu Jiu, close to Romania's Carpathian Mountains, an area known for its rich tradition of folk crafts, particularly woodcarving.

Freeway opponents fear that upgrading Highway 84 will encourage more people to live in southern Alameda County ( where housing is more affordable ) and commute to jobs in the mid-Peninsula area ( where businesses wish to be located in order to be close to Silicon Valley ), thus increasing traffic in their neighborhoods to the south and west of U. S. 101.

It is also close to a large marshy area called Dachauer Moos.

The Alutiiq language is relatively close to that spoken by the Yupik in the Bethel, Alaska area, but is considered a distinct language with two major dialects: the Koniag dialect, spoken on the Alaska Peninsula and on Kodiak Island, and the Chugach dialect, is spoken on the southern Kenai Peninsula and in Prince William Sound.

Petroleum found close to the Faroese area gives hope for deposits in the immediate area, which may lay the basis to sustained economic prosperity.

At the close of the 20th Century, all of the Earth's kaiju have been collected and confined in an area known as Monster Island, by the United Nations Science Committee, in the Ogasawara island chain.

The village of Madina do Boé in the southeasternmost area of the territory, close to the border with neighbouring Guinea, was the location where PAIGC guerrillas declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau on September 24, 1973.

The airport sustains 76, 600 jobs directly and around 116, 000 indirectly in the immediate area, and this, together with the large number of global corporations with offices close to the airport, makes Heathrow a modern aerotropolis which contributes an estimated 2. 7 % to London's total GVA.

As London grew, Hertfordshire became conveniently close to the English capital ; much of the area was owned by the nobility and aristocracy, this patronage helped to boost the local economy.

The blade is brought close to the skin and stroked over the hair in the desired area to cut the terminal hairs and leave the skin feeling smooth.

He came back from one of his voyages and reported he had been close to a black island, which was on fire, and there was a terrible noise in the area.

The area is enclosed and visitable through an entrance on the last block of Ermou Street, close to the intersection with Peiraios Street.

During the reign of Juba II Emperor Augustus ( who created in the area of what is now northern Morocco 12 colonies with retired Roman legionaries ) had already founded three colonias, with Roman citizens, in Mauretania close to the Atlantic coast: Iulia Constantia Zilil, Iulia Valentia Banasa and Iulia Campestris Babba.

In Amsterdam 26 coffeeshops in the De Wallen area will have to close their doors between 1 September 2012 and 31 August 2015.