Bafra

Bafra is a district in the Samsun Province of Turkey. As a settlement, Bafra dates back to the fifth millennium BC. Remnants in the İkiztepe area revealed signs of habitation during the chalcolithic period (fifth to fourth millennia). These habitations apparently continued uninterrupted until 1700 BC. Early Bronze Age and Early Hittite objects were discovered there and Paphlagonians are known to have lived in Kızılırmak Valley. Persians overtook the region in 546 BC from Lydians. A Hellenistic mausoleum was also found there. The area was ruled in turn by the Roman and Byzantine Empires, until the Selchuks arrived, assimilating the Turcoman tribes and establishing Bafra Principality that ceded to Ottomans in 1460. The name Bafra derives...