صامسون

Ottoman Turkish

Samsun province

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek Σαμψούντα (Sampsoúnta).

Proper noun

صامسون • (samsun)

1. Samsun (a city and province in the Black Sea region, Turkey)

Descendants

• Turkish: Samsun

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Samsun”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صامسون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1162
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Samsun”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 657