Bafra

Bafra lies on the fertile plain of the lower Kızılırmak, about twenty kilometres from the Black Sea, near the mound of İkiztepe, which was settled for over two thousand years in the Bronze Age. The Seljuks took the district after Manzikert, and in 1214 Kaykaus I settled Turkmen tribes here. After the Mongol invasions beginning in 1243 weakened the sultanate, a small Bafra beylik arose, one of the Canik principalities of the northern coast. The Ottomans absorbed it in 1460.