Places to visit in Samsun
6 places from Samsun province are on the map: Samsun, Havza, Kızılırmak Delta, Şahinkaya Canyon, Mount Nebiyan, and Lake Ladik & Akdağ. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Samsun
“I landed at Samsun on the 19th day of May, 1335.” Nutuk opens with this plain sentence. No ornament, no exaggeration; only a date, a city and a verb… So why was one of history’s most…
See on the map →Havza
The clatter of a telegraph machine… At the end of May 1919, in a small spa town south of Samsun, that sound did not stop for days. Telegrams sent from Havza to every corner of the country…
See on the map →Kızılırmak Delta
Birds carry no maps and use no compass; so how do they find the same reed bed, the same lake, every year from thousands of kilometers away? Perhaps some places look so striking from the sky…
See on the map →Şahinkaya Canyon
Can a town take its name from a vizier? That is exactly how Vezirköprü’s name was born. Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, the grand vizier who pulled the shaken Ottoman state back together in the 17th…
See on the map →Mount Nebiyan
When summer comes to the Black Sea, a migration begins. Escaping the hot, humid coast, people climb with provisions in hand and animals at their side, up to the high pastures, the yaylas…
See on the map →Lake Ladik & Akdağ
Picture a town set on the shore of a lake, at the foot of a mountain; snow in winter, birds in summer, the bounty of the plain in spring… Ladik is one of the rare places that offers all of…
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