Alaçam

Alaçam is a central town of Alaçam district of Samsun Province of Turkey. Scholars believe that Alaçam is the site of the ancient city of Zaliches. The town has a very old history. The Phrygians, Kimmerians, Egyptians, Lydians and Persians have ruled in Alaçam before Christus. Miletian Greeks who moved there from Ionia, Western Anatolia, in the 5th century BC had named it Zelicus. Having been conquered later by Byzantians, the town was controlled subsequently by Danishmend, Selchuks and İlhanites and, during the Anatolian principalities era, by Candaroğlu and İsfendiyaroğlu principalities and finally by the Ottoman Empire. Since 1st September 1944, Alaçam is the eighth sub-prefecture of Samsun Province. Alaçam is a pretty coastal town,...