How to find us in Samsun:

General information about Samsun:

Kvaløy Nettverk’s office in Samsun is situated on the Black Sea coast in the Atakum municipality of Samsun, on the way from the city center to the 19 Mayis University.

The Samsun office is the base for the team of our professional Turkish in-house translators.

Samsun is city and port in northern Turkey. It is the capital of Samsun Province, on the Black Sea. A resort city on the coastal railroad, it is an important tobacco port, and tobacco processing is the principal industry; other manufactures include cigarettes and textiles. The city is the trade center for an area producing grains, wool, hides, and vegetables. Among the city's educational institutions is 19th May University (1975).

Founded in 562 BC as Amisus, or Amisos, on the site of a city destroyed by the Phrygians, it became an important city in Pontus after 300 BC. Passing to Rome, Byzantium, and the Seljuk Turks, it came under the rule of Genoa in the 14th century and was called Simisso. The city was taken by the Ottoman Turks in 1425. In 1869 Samsun suffered a disastrous fire. In 1919 the Turkish general and statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk began his political conquest of Turkey there.

Samsun has population of about 400,000.