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Samandağ (Arabic: السويدية, as-Sūwaydīyah), formerly known as Süveydiye, is a town and district in Hatay Province of southern Turkey, at the mouth of the Asi River on the Mediterranean coast, near Turkey's border with Syria, 25 km (16 mi) from the city of Antakya.

Samandağ
Samandağ
Coordinates: 36°05′06″N 35°58′50″E
Country Turkey
ProvinceHatay
Government
 • MayorRefik Eryılmaz (CHP)
 • KaymakamMurat Kütük
Area
[1]
 • District445.60 km2 (172.05 sq mi)
Elevation
72 m (236 ft)
Population
 (2012)[2]
 • Urban
44,912
 • District
128,303
 • District density290/km2 (750/sq mi)

Etymology


Samandağ was formerly known as Süveydiye, Yukarı Alevışık and Levşiye. It was officially named Samandağ (Seman Dağ, Turkish for Jabal Sem'an: St. Symeon Mountain) in 1948. In Armenian, it was known as Svetia (Սվեդիա).

View of Samandağ
View of Samandağ

History


Samandağ lies near the site of the ancient Seleucia Pieria, founded in 300 BC by Seleucus Nicator, a general of Alexander the Great, in the Seleucid era that followed Alexander's demise. Seleucia Pieria quickly became a major Mediterranean port of the Hellenistic and Roman eras, the port of Antioch. However, it was subject to silting and an earthquake in 526 finally completed its demise as a port.

During the 6th century, Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger lived on Saman Dağı, a nearby mountain that is also known in Christian sources as the "Wondrous Mountain" or the "Admirable Mountain."[3]

Samandağ, then called St Symeon,[4] became the port of Antioch, and played an important role in the capture of the city by the Crusaders in 1098, to be known as Soudin.[5] The whole area was known as Svediye, where six villages of Armenians were located (Bityas, Kabousiye, Haji Habibly, Kheder Beg, Yoghoun Olouk and Vakif) until 1939, the so called "Referrendum", when all the Armenian villagers (over 6000) emigrated to Anjar, Lebanon. Only a small part of Vakif remained and are still in the village, now called Vakifly.


Geography


Samandağ itself is a small town of 35,000 people, close to the city of Antakya. The local economy depends on fishing and agriculture, especially citrus fruits, and Samandağ has the air of a country market town, with young men buzzing through the streets on mopeds. Around the midtown of Çevlik (derived from Seleucia), there is a long sandy coastline popular with daytrippers from Antakya, although the sea can be stormy. This is an important nesting area of the endangered sea turtle Caretta caretta.


Population


Antiochian Orthodox church in Samandağ
Antiochian Orthodox church in Samandağ

The vast majority of the population is composed of Arabic speakers who adhere to the Alawism and/or Nusayrism. There are also Sunni Arabs and Turks. There are Armenian and Antiochian Greek Orthodox Christian communities in the district, with around 2,000 people.[citation needed] The village of Vakıflı is Turkey's only remaining rural Armenian community.


Local politics


Politically Samandağ is traditionally left-leaning. In the 2009 local elections, Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) candidate Mithat Nehir was elected mayor of the ilçe with 34.20% of the votes (the CHP candidate got 31.77%, the AKP one 14.07%) he was then the sole victorious ÖDP candidate in the entire republic.[6] In September 2013, he joined the CHP under which banner he successfully contested the next 2014 local elections.[7] In the local elections in March 2019 Refik Eryılmaz was elected Mayor for the Republican People's Party (CHP).[8] The current District Governor is Murat Kütük.[9]


Places of interest



See also



References


  1. "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  2. "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
  3. Della Dora, Veronica (2016). Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium. Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-316-48838-6. OCLC 938434170.
  4. Pryor, John H. (22 September 2018). Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney, 30 September to 4 October 2002. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 9780754651970. Retrieved 22 September 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. "Antioch". fmg.ac.
  6. (in Turkish) "Hatay Samandağ İlçesi - Adayların Oy Dağılımı" (Electoral results of the 2009 local election), Hürriyet, 2009
  7. (in Turkish) "Kılıçdaroğlu Mithat Nehir'e rozeti taktı", Akşam, 22 September 2013
  8. Şafak, Yeni (2019-03-12). "Hatay Samandağ Seçim Sonuçları – Samandağ Yerel Seçim Sonuçları". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  9. "Kaymakam Murat Kütük". www.samandag.gov.tr. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  10. Kalkan, Ersin (2005-07-31). "Türkiye'nin tek Ermeni köyü Vakıflı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2007-02-22.
  11. Campbell, Verity (2007). Turkey. Lonely Planet. p. 438. ISBN 978-1-74104-556-7. Vakifli.


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На других языках

[de] Samandağ

Samandağ ist eine Stadtgemeinde (Belediye) im gleichnamigen Ilçe (Landkreis) der Provinz Hatay in der türkischen Mittelmeerregion und gleichzeitig ein Stadtbezirk der 2012 gebildeten Büyükşehir Belediyesi Hatay (Großstadtgemeinde/Metropolprovinz). Samandağ ist seit der Gebietsreform ab 2013 flächen- und einwohnermäßig identisch mit dem Landkreis.
- [en] Samandağ

[ru] Самандаг

Самандаг (тур. Samandağ) — город и район в провинции Хатай (Турция).


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