Vezirköprü
Sign in to saveVezirköprü is a municipality and district of Samsun Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,674 km2, and its population is 90,308 (2022). It is named after the Ottoman Albanian grand vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pasha.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Vezirköprü
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Vezirköprü Köprülü Mehmet Paşa Cami - panoramio (1).jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Köprülü Mehmet Paşa Mosque in Vezirköprü
- Turkey place.image_map
- Vezirköprü District Location in Samsun Province.png
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Vezirköprü District in Samsun Province
- Turkey place.province
- Samsun
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- İbrahim Sadık Edis
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 1674
- Turkey place.population_total
- 90308
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 55900
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0362
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 95569
- Elevation
- 940
- Official website
- www.vezirkopru.bel.tr
- Image
- Vezirköprü Şahinkaya Kanyonu - panoramio - sami yılmaz.jpg
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- name in kana
- ヴェジールキョプリュ
- postal code
- 55900
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Vezirköprü is a municipality and district of Samsun Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,674 km2, and its population is 90,308 (2022). It is named after the Ottoman Albanian grand vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pasha.
== 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.
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