Çarşamba is a town and district (
ilçe
The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the ''kaza''.
Most provinces bear the same name as their respectiv ...
) of
Samsun Province
Samsun Province ( tr, Samsun ili) is a Provinces of Turkey, province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast with a population of 1,252,693 (2010). Its adjacent provinces are Sinop Province, Sinop on the northwest, Çorum Province, Çorum on the west, A ...
in the
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Roma ...
region of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
, in the center of the
Çarşamba Plain
The ''Çarşamba Plain'', the ancient Themiscyra Plain (; grc-gre, Θεμίσκυρα ''Themiskyra''), is a plain on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, formed largely of the delta of the Yeşilırmak river (ancient Iris), but also traversed by the m ...
. It is the second largest district of the Samsun province after
Bafra. The mayor is Halit Doğan (
AKP).
Ferhan Şensoy - writer, actor and stage director - was born here.
The town is bisected by the
Yeşilırmak river Yeşilırmak (literally "green river") is a Turkish place name that may refer to several things:
*Yeşilırmak (river), a river in northern Turkey
*Elif Jale Yeşilırmak (born 1986), Turkish female wrestler of Russian origin
*Limnitis
Limnitis ...
running south-to-north and by the
Black Sea Coastal Road (D010) which runs west-to-east. There is a Sugar Factory in Çarşamba county.
See also
*
Göğceli Mosque
Göğceli Mosque ( tr, Göğceli Camii) is a historic log mosque situated inside the Göğceli Cemetery in Çarşamba, Samsun, northern Turkey. Built during the Seljuk Empire period in the 1200s, the log mosque was constructed without the use of ...
, Seljuk Empire era log mosque in Göğceli Cemetery
References
External links
Çarşamba municipality's official website
Populated places in Samsun Province
Towns in Turkey
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