Vezirköprü
Vezirköprü is a municipality and district of Samsun Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,674 km 2, and its population is 90,308 (2022). It is named after the Ottoman Albanian grand vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pasha.
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Key facts
• Type — metro district • Name — Vezirköprü • Province — Samsun • Leader Party — AKP • Leader Name — İbrahim Sadık Edis • Area Total Km2 — 1674 • Population Total — 90308 • Population As Of — 2022 • Postal Code — 55900 • Area Code — 0362 • Website — http: www.vezirkopru.bel.tr/
History
History
At the breakup of Alexander the Great's empire the Vezirköprü region became part of the kingdom of Pontus with its capital at Amaseia (Amasya), later at Sinope (Sinop). When the last king Mithradates VI was defeated by the Romans, Pompey the Great founded a "new city", Neapolis, which later changed its name to Neoklaudioupolis (Νεοκλαυδιούπολις) or Neoclaudiopolis in Latin, the forerunner of modern Vezirköprü. In late antiquity, the town returned to its original name, Andrapa (Ἄνδραπα), and became a bishopric. It also minted coins bearing the dates and effigies of Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, and Caracalla. Its bishop Paralius was at the Council of Ephesus (431) and sent his deacon Eucharius to represent him at the Council of Chalcedon (451). Paulus was one of the signatories of the letter by which the bishops of the Roman province of Helenopontus, to which Andrapa belonged, protested to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian in 458 about the killing of Proterius of Alexandria. Ioannes was at the Third Council of Constantinople (680), Sergius at the Trullan Council (692). Theodorus was represented at the Second Council of Nicaea (787) by his deacon Marinus. Antonius took part in the Photian Council of Constantinople (879). No longer a residential bishopric, Andrapa is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.
Composition
There are 161 neighbourhoods in Vezirköprü District: • Abdülgani • Adatepe • Ağcaalan • Ağcayazı • Ahmetbaba • Akören • Alanbaşı • Alancık • Alanköy • Alanşeyhi • Altınkaya • Arıca • Atatürk • Avdan • Aydınlı • Aydoğdu • Ayvalı • Bahçekonak • Bahçelievler • Bahçesaray • Bakla • Başalan • Başfakı • Bayramköy • Bektaş • Belalan • Beşpınar • Boğaköy • Boğazkoru • Boruk • Burhaniye • Büyükkale • Çakırtaş • Çalköy • Çalman • Çaltı • Çamlıca • Çamlıdere • Çamlıkonak • Çanaklı • Çayırbaşı • Cebeli • Çekalan • Çekmeden • Çeltek • Çorakdere • Cumhuriyet • Darıçayalanı • Darıçay • Değirmenbaşı • Devalan • Doyran • Duruçay • Elaldı • Elbeyi • Elmalı • Esen • Esentepe • Esenyurt • Fazıl Ahmet Paşa • Göl • Göl Yeni • Göllüalan • Gömlekhisar • Güder • Güldere • Habibfakı • Hacılı • Halilbaba • Halkahavlı • Hayranlı • Hıdırlık • İmircik • İncesu • İnkaya • Kabalı • Kadıçayırı • Kadıoğlu • Kapaklı • Kapaklıeşme • Kaplancık • Karabük • Karacaören • Karadoruk • Karaköy • Karanar • Karapınar • Karkucak • Karlı • Kavakpınarı • Kılıçgüney • Kıranalan • Kıratbükü • Kırma • Kızılcakoru • Kızılcaören • Kızılkese • Kocakaya • Köprübaşı • Kovalı • Küçükkale • Kületek • Kumral • Kuruçay • Kuşçular • Kuyaş • Kuyumcu • Mahmatlı • Mehmetpaşa • Melikli • Meşeli • Mezraa • Nalbantlı • Narlısaray • Öğürlü • Örencik • Ortacamii • Ortaköy • Oruç • Ovacık • Oymaağaç • Özesentepe • Özgüney • Özkuruçay • Özyörük • Paşaköy • Pazarcı • Samukalan • Samur • Saraycık • Saraylı • Sarıalan • Sarıdibek • Sarıyar • Şentepe • Sırbaşmak • Sofular • Soğucak • Susuz • Tabakhane • Tahtaköprü • Taşkale • Taşlıyük • Tatarkale • Teberük • Tekkekıranı • Tepeören • Tikenli • Türkmen • Yağcı • Yağınözü • Yarbaşı • Yeni • Yeniçelik • Yenidüzce • Yeşilada • Yeşiltepe • Yolpınar • Yukarınarlı • Yurtdağı • Yürükçal
Literature
* * * * • Bekker-Nielsen, T., R. Czichon, C. Høgel, B. Kıvrak, J.M. Madsen, V. Sauer, S.L. Sørensen & K. Winther-Jacobsen 2015. Ancient Neoklaudiopolis (Vezirköprü in Samsun Province): A Historical and Archaeological Guide. Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları.
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- 1.Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- 2.General Directorate of Mapping. İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri.
- 3.TÜİK. Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports.
- 4.Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 539-540
- 5.Sophrone Pétridès, v. Andrapa, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. II, Paris 1914, coll. 1597-1598
- 6.Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 833
- 7.Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
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