Ladik is a municipality and
district
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...
of
Samsun Province
Samsun Province () is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its area is 9,725 km2, and its population is 1,368,488 (2022). Its adjacent provinces are Sinop on the northwest, Çorum on the west, Amasy ...
,
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. Its area is 541 km
2, and its population is 16,072 (2022).
It is on the site of the ancient Laodicea Pontica. The mayor is Adnan Topal (
AKP).
History
Laodicea Pontica or Laodicea (), also
transliterated
Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one writing system, script to another that involves swapping Letter (alphabet), letters (thus ''wikt:trans-#Prefix, trans-'' + ''wikt:littera#Latin, liter-'') in predictable ways, such as ...
as Laodíceia and Laodíkeia, was a
Hellenistic
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...
town in
Pontus
Pontus or Pontos may refer to:
* Short Latin name for the Pontus Euxinus, the Greek name for the Black Sea (aka the Euxine sea)
* Pontus (mythology), a sea god in Greek mythology
* Pontus (region), on the southern coast of the Black Sea, in modern ...
. The city was founded in the hills (elevation 1000 m) not far west of the lake
Stiphane Limne, southwest of
Amisus
Samsun is a List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, city on the north coast of Turkey and a major Black Sea port. The urban area recorded a population of 738,692 in 2022. The city is the capital of Samsun Province which has a population of ...
(modern Samsun). It is the birthplace of the Albanian grand vizier
Tayyar Mehmed Pasha.
Composition
There are 67
neighbourhoods
A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...
in Ladik District:
Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
* Ağcakaya
* Ahmetsaray
* Akpınar
* Aktaş
* Akyar
* Alayurt
* Alıçlı
* Arslantaş
* Aşağıgölyazı
* Ayvalı
* Ayvalısokağı
* Bahşi
* Başlamış
* Bolat
* Budakdere
* Büyükalan
* Büyükkızoğlu
* Çadırkaya
* Çakırgümüş
* Çamlıköy
* Cüce
* Daldere
* Deliahmetoğlu
* Derinöz
* Doğankaş
* Eynekaraca
* Günkoru
* Gürün
* Güvenli
* Hacıalipınar
* Hamamayağı
* Hamitköy
* Hasırcı
* Hızarbaşı
* İbi
* İsasofta
* İskaniye
* Kabacagöz
* Karaabdal
* Kıranboğaz
* Kirazpınar
* Kızılsini
* Koğa
* Köseoğlu
* Küçükkızoğlu
* Küpecik
* Kuyucak
* Mazlumoğlu
* Meşepınarı
* Nusratlı
* Oymapınar
* Salur
* Sanayi
* Saray
* Sarıgazel
* Sarıksızoğlu
* Şehreküstü
* Şıhlı
* Soğanlı
* Söğütlü
* Tatlıcak
* Teberoğlu
* Tüfekçidere
* Yenicami
* Yukarıgölyazı
* Yumaklı
* Yuvacık
See also
* List of ancient Greek cities
This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign '' poleis''.
Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included h ...
References
Populated places in Samsun Province
Archaeological sites in the Black Sea region
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey
Seleucid colonies in Anatolia
Greek colonies in Pontus
Ski areas and resorts in Turkey
Districts of Samsun Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
{{Samsun-geo-stub