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Today, we are in Bafra, the biggest district of Samsun in our Central Black Sea series.
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Bafra is a settlement located 20 kilometers from the Black Sea, on the deposited plain of Kızılırmak. Bafra Plain is Turkey's largest Delta plain.
The district is surrounded by Ondokuz Mayıs and Atakum in the east, Alaçam in the west, Kavak, Havza and Vezirköprü districts in the south. The Black Sea, of course, in the north. Its area is 175 thousand hectares and its population is 145 thousand. Its distance to Samsun is 51 km.
It is thought that the name of the district comes from the words "bafira" or "bavra" to the trade houses established in the bays where the trade ships docked during the Phoenician period in 521 BC. There are also those who say that it comes from the name Ba-Hura, the “Great River” given to Kızılırmak in Luwian. The history of the district dates back to 5000 BC.
During the researches at İkiztepe ruins, traces of settlements belonging to the Chalcolithic period were found. It has been understood in the researches that there was a continuous settlement in İkiztepe for 2300 years, from 4000 BC to 1700 BC. In some sources, since the Hittites, whose capital was Hattusha, came to Anatolia from the Kızılırmak Valley, it is stated that their sacred capital was İkiztepe.
The region, which was captured by the Lydians in the 6th century BC, was invaded by the Persians in 546 BC. There is also a mausoleum belonging to the Hellenistic period in İkiztepe. This region came under Roman rule in 47 BC and took the names Gadilon and Helega during this period.
After the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, Turkmen tribes settled in Bafra, which was captured by the Seljuks. The town of Bafra was a county belonging to the Canik Sanjak of the Trabzon Province during the Ottoman period.
After the 1876 Ottoman-Russian war, many Turks came to Bafra from the Crimea. The Balkan and First World Wars, which broke out later, enabled the Turkish people to decline and become poor, and the Greeks and Armenians, despite being a minority, took over the economic life and enriched it. For this reason, the Greeks, who were encouraged to establish the Pontus Republic, founded the Mavri Mira Society.
However, with the start of the National Struggle in 1919, these goals could not be realized, and then they struggled with the Turks who came from the Kavala, Drama and Thessaloniki regions of Greece and knew the tobacco growing business very well. The refugees who came to Bafra were settled in villages along the Kızılırmak river, especially in the southern part of the town centre. The place of exchanges is extremely important in the agricultural, cultural and economic development of Bafra. Later, people from the villages of Alaçam district and people from the Eastern Black Sea, Tokat, Sivas and various provinces of Anatolia settled in the district.
Bafra Plain, which covers the Kızılırmak delta, is surrounded by mountains in the south. The highest of these is Mount Nebiyan with 1224 m. These mountains are the extensions of the Canik Mountains. The longest river in Turkey, Kızılırmak, crosses these mountains through a deep valley and reaches the plain. Bafra Plain was formed entirely by the effects of Kızılırmak. Many lakes were formed in the parts of the river close to the sea. The skirts of Mount Nebiyan are plateaus.
The length of Kızılırmak is 1151 km. It rises from the Kızıl Mountain in Sivas, draws a wide arc in Central Anatolia and pours into the sea from Bafra. It carries water mostly in April and July.
The lakes formed where Kızılırmak empties into the sea are located on both sides of the river. The lake in the west is Karaboğaz, and the lake in the east is Fish Lakes. The surroundings of the lakes are reeds and swamps. However, there are also forested areas.
Dry and hot winds blowing from the southwest and south in the district reduce the humidity in the district. The average humidity of the district is 73%. The highest precipitation in the district falls in November, and the least precipitation falls in May. Average annual precipitation is around 700 mm. The number of rainy days is an average of 100 days per year.
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