Dear guests,

Welcome to Samsun. Let me give you some information about this beautiful city.

Samsun is the largest city on the Black Sea coast and it is a major commercial port and an industrial city. It is an ancient city which has been totally modernized and has all the traits of a commercial port. The city, with the name Amissos in ancient times, is the port where products of the whole region are exported and it hosts the annual Samsun Trade and Industry Fair.

Samsun found itself at the center of the Turkish War of Independence on May 19,1919, when Atatürk landed here to organise the defence of Anatolia. The extraordinary equestrian statue of Ataturk at the city park stands as a memorial of that day. At the Ataturk Museum, there are many memorial objects from the Turkish War of Independence.

In the other museum of the city, the Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum, there are many findings from the environs and ancient Samsun (Amissos), especially of importance are the artifacts and jewelry. At Ikiztepe, there was a significant excavation. An archaeological site from the Early Bronze Age was found there.

Bafra, a little town to the west of Samsun is famous for its tobacco, caviar and thermal springs. You can see a 13th century Turkish Bath (Hamam), a mosque-mausoleum-medresse complex from the 15th century, the Paphlagorian Rock Tombs and the ruins of Asar Fortress. Lake Simenik at Terme is a birds' paradise.

Samsun has a long history and its myths go back even longer. According to ancient myths the delta east of Samsun was the land of the Amazons. The geographer Strabo (64 BC-21 AD) describes the Amazons as a people of female warriors. In order to shoot easily with bow and arrow they had one of their breast removed. Amazon is derived from the old Greek and means 'without breasts'. The Amazons used men from neighboring peoples to reproduce themselves and male children were sent to neighboring peoples. The myths situate the period of the Amazons about 1200 BC.

Greek colonists settled in the 6th century BC and established a flourishing trade with the people of the interior of Asia Minor. In the 3rd century BC Samsun came under the rule of the expanding Kingdom of Pontus. Initially the Kingdom of Pontus had been a part of the empire of Alexander the Great that broke up soon after his death in the 4th century BC.

The Romans took over in 47 BC and were replaced by the Byzantines. The town was captured by the Seljuks (around 1200 AD) and later became part of a Turkish principality. The region was taken by the Ottomans in the first part of the 15th century.

Here, on 19 May 1919, a man stepped ashore who would create a Turkish state, change a society and even alter a language; this great man was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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13.11.2009 Arrival at the airport – to the Hotel

14.11.2009

08:00 Breakfast at the Hotel 09.00 Visiting Atakum Adult Education Centre (1)

10.00 Start of Meeting 13.30 Lunch

14.30 City Tour - A Visit to Samsun Bandırma Boat Museum (2)

- Gazi Museum(3) - Big Mosque (4)

18:30 Hamam (Turkish Baths) (5) 20:00 Back to the Hotel

21:00 Dinner

15.11.2009 08:00 Breakfast at the Hotel

09.00 Start of Meeting 12.30 A visit to Amisos Hill (6)

14.30 Lunch 15:30 Archeology and Ethnography Muesum (7)

17:00 Atatürk Monument 18.00 Shop till you drop (Russian Bazaar)

20:30 Dinner (Ezella Restaurant) 21:30 Back to the Hotel

16.11.2009

Leave to the Airport & Farewell

1. ATAKUM ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE

Atakum Adult Education Centre was founded in 2008 in Samsun. It is a non-formal educational institution that provides the people who are in or out of formal education with life long learning opportunities in order to contribute to their cultural, social and economical development in relation to their interests, competences and skills. There are a great number and variety of courses and classes covered by some educational programmes such as;

- Basic Education - Academic Education - Vocational and Technical Education - Arts - General Knowledge and Citizenship Education - House Management & Parenting and Family Education - Social Services Education - Education for Health - Handcrafts

2. SAMSUN BANDIRMA BOAT MUSEUM

Bandirma Boat, which fulfilled a very significant role on the way to independent Turkish Repuplic, has taken its unique place in the history by taking great saviour Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK, as the 9 th army commander, and his 18 friends to

Samsun. The Bandirma Boat was built as a passenger and cargo ship in 1878 in Scotland under the name of “Torocaderto” and was operated for 5 years by a company.

Bandirma Boat was used as a cargo vessel under the name of “panderma” registered in Otoman Maritime administration, by a Grek shipowner from 1883 to 1910. During the World War I, Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK and his 18 friends on board from İstanbul arrived in Samsun on 19 May 1919 by the Bandirma Boat.

Bandirma Boat was out of service in 1925 and later it was dismantled. A genuine model of The Bandirma Boat with its orginal sizes (47.70 m. – 6.83 m. – 4.27 m.) was built by the Governorship of Samsun. Its environmental arrangement was realized by the Samsun Governorship, Samsun Metropol Municipality and finally The Bandirma Boat was opened to puplic visit as a museum ship on 19 May 2003 by the East park area. 3. GAZI MUSEUM

Gazi Museum is located on the Mecidiye Avenue at the Kale district in the centre of Samsun. The walls of this two-storey building were made of bricks. Lathwork was used inside. Atatürk stayed for 6 days in this building during his first arrival to Samsun on 19 May 1919. In that time this building was known as “Mintika Palace”. During the second arrival of the Great Leader (20-24

September 1924), the subject building was presented to him as a gift of the Samsun People. The Great Leader also stayed in this building during his third (16-18 September 1928) and his fourth (22-26 November 1930) visits to Samsun. After the transfer of the building to Ministry of Culture by the Samsun Municipality and than, after its restoration and rearranging for exhibition, it was opened to visitors on 8 November 1998.

4. BIG MOSQUE Known as "Ulu Camii, Hamidiye

Camii, Valide Camii, it was costructed in 1884 by Hacı Ali and was restorated by the mother of Sultan Abdülaziz, one of the Ottoman Emperors. It is one of the cultural heritages that is still on stand in Samsun.

5. HAMAM (TURKISH BATHS)

Samsun is a fascinating city which is famous for its springs, Turkish baths and spa centres. Scientific analysis have shown that the spring water is effective in the treatment of many illnesses such as; rheumatic pains, arthiritis, stiffening of the joints and hips, hernias, female complaints, severe pains, severe colitis, liver and gall stones and skin complaints. 6. AMISOS HILL

Samsun was founded as the colony Amisos (alternative spelling Amisus, Eis Amison - meaning to amisos took the name Samsunta or Samsus) by settlers from Miletus in the 7th century BC. Amisos Hill is a hill where you can see the modern and historical view of Samsun together. You can enjoy the beautiful view of Samsun while drinking Turkish tea prepared in SEMAVER. Amisos Hill was found by change by a treasure researcher. A family grave of a Phontus King and his treasure was found on this hill.

7. ARCHEOLOGY and ETHNOGRAPHY MUSEUM

The construction of Archaeology & Ethnography Museum in the Fair area in Samsun began in 1976 and the museum was opened to visit on May 19th, 1981. The museum consists of a central hall and two other symmetrical halls. The mosaic being exhibited in the central hall was made in times of Alexander Severus (AC 222-235), the Rome Emperor and was restored in Byzantine Times at the end of AC 5th century. There are various mythological scenes on mosaic base made symmetrically. There is a scene in the middle related to the Troia war including Akhilleus and Thetis; there are some portraits reflecting the seasons on the panels located on each four corner of this scene; and Nereids and sea creatures are described in the rectangular panels among the seasons. Other than these figured scenes, there is a scene on a rectangular panel describing a sacrifice. The remaining parts of the above mentioned mosaic are ornamented with geometrical and plant motifs. ACCOMMODATION

You are going to accommodate in

Atakum Leısure Centre, which is in the city centre. You willl have your breakfast here but lunch and dinner will be out at different restaurants. You will taste the traditional dishes pecular to Samsun. A minibus will be waiting for you in order to take you to the destinations.

PARTICIPANTS

The activities will be carried out in the attandence of Romanian, Slovenian, Greek, Lithuanian and Turkish participants. There will not be any representatives from Italy as the meeting dates are not suitable for them. The names of the meeting participants are as follows;

ROMANIAN PARTICIPANTS SLOVENIAN PARTICIPANTS

GREEK PARTICIPANTS TURKISH PARTICIPANTS

1 YVONNE VON BECK

2 KATARINA KANAKARI

3 EFI MAKRI LITHUANIAN PARTICIPANTS

MEETING AGENDA

- Introducing the participating institutions, participants, and understanding the structure of the institutions,

- Presentation of the project, giving detailed information about the activities to be done and the aims of the project,

- Revision and reorganization of the partnership and the application form according to the structure of the partnership, (if needed)

- Discussing on the details of the planned activities, - Sharing the new responsibilities, - Organization of the budget and the activities for the following

months, - Determining the exact dates of the planned activities; such as mobility

actions and other project assessment meetings, - Expressing ideas about promotion measures to increase civil society

involvement, - Analysis of problems about cultural heritages at local level, - Presentation of the local museum, - Sharing ideas about the preparation of a booklet named “EU

HERITAGES” - Evaluating the meeting by the partner organizations - Cultural visits and social activities in TURKEY, - Evaluating the meeting by the participants,

1 MARC PILLICH-WRIGHT

2 GYÖNGYVER PILLICH-WRIGHT

1 BARBARA VOGRINEC

1 SAVAŞ BOYAR

2 MERVE DUYGULU

3 NURETTİN ÖZDEMİR

4 ENVER TUFANER 1 STANISLAVA NERUTE KLIGIENE