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Samsun (Samsun İli, Turkey)

LC control no.n 85272748
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Geographic headingSamsun (Samsun İli, Turkey)
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Geographic subdivision usageTurkey--Samsun (Samsun İli)
Variant(s)Amisos (Turkey)
Amisus (Turkey)
Sampsōn (Turkey)
Sampsous (Turkey)
Samsoun (Turkey)
Found inKentsel yerler hanehalkı işgücü anket sonuçları. Samsun, 1982: t.p. (Samsun)
BGN gaz. of Turkey, 1984 (Samsun, ppl, 41°17ʹN 36°20ʹE, in Samsun İli; other ppl of same name also listed)
Col. Lipp. gaz. (Samsun, city, cap. of Samsun prov, N. Turkey on the Black Sea. The ancient Amisos, it was founded (6th cent. B.C.) by Greek colonists, became an important city of the kingdom of Pontus)
New enk. Brit. micropaedia (Samsun, ancient Amisus. Known as Amisos under the Byzantines, it was renamed Samsun by the Seljuq Turks when they took it in the second half of the l2th cent.)
Eleutheroudakē enk. leks. (Amisos (today Sampsous, Turkish Samsoun))
Hē Amisos kai ta pathē tēs, 1991: t.p. (Amisos) p. 18 (In 1392 captured by Ottoman Turks and named Sampsōn or Sampsous from the Pontian dialect, eis Amison=Sampsōn)
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