Lâdik

Lâdik lies in a high basin among the hills inland from Samsun, at about 900 metres, with a lake to the east of the town. Its Greek name was Laodikeia, and the area saw Hittite, Phrygian, Persian, Pontic and Roman rule. After the Turkish victory at Manzikert in 1071 it passed to the Seljuks and was quickly Turkified. In the 14th century it came under the Eretna beylik, and later the Ottomans attached it to the sanjak of Amasya, the main city of this part of northern Anatolia.