İlkadım is the central borough of the city of

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. Samsun is one of the 30

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with more than one municipality within city borders.

Geography

İlkadım is within the city of Samsun at . It includes the port of the Samsun and the name İlkadım refers to Atatürk's arrival in Samsun (via sea) in order to start the

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on 19 May 1919. (''İlkadım'' means first step).The population of İlkadım is 307,746 as of 2009 Statistical Institute page
/ref> It constitutes % 59 of the population of Greater Samsun which is 519,611 .

History

The excavations carried on the höyük of Dündartepe revealed a settlement of

Chalcolithic The Copper Age, also called the Chalcolithic (; from grc-gre, χαλκός ''khalkós'', "copper" and ''líthos'', "Rock (geology), stone") or (A)eneolithic (from Latin ''wikt:aeneus, aeneus'' "of copper"), is an list of archaeologi ...

age. During early

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there was a colony named Amisos (in Greek Αμισός) founded by the colonialists from

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. It was captured by

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in 43 BC . After 1071, it was captured by Danishmends and

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. In 1413 was incorporated into

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Mehmet I Mehmed I ( 1386 – 26 May 1421), also known as Mehmed Çelebi ( ota, چلبی محمد, "the noble-born") or Kirişçi ( el, Κυριτζής, Kyritzis, "lord's son"), was the Ottoman sultan from 1413 to 1421. The fourth son of Sultan Bayez ...

.The mayor's page
/ref> İlkadım is actually a part of the city of Greater Samsun. In 1994 it was declared a municipality within the city borders of greater Samsun and the corresponding district governorate is established in 2008.

Rural area

There are 11 villages in the rural area of İlkadım. The total population of the district is (urban and rural) 315,089

Government and Politics

The mayor is Necattin Demirtaş ( İyi Party).

References

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Geography

History

Rural area

Government and Politics

See also

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