title: Vezirköprü
text: Vezirköprü is a municipality and district of Samsun Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,674 km2, and its population is 90,308 (2022). It is named after the Ottoman Albanian grand vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pasha.
  
  History 
  At the breakup of Alexander the Great's empire the Vezirköprü region became part of the kingdom of Pontus with its capital at Amaseia (Amasya), later at Sinope (Sinop). When the last king Mithradates VI was defeated by the Romans, Pompey the Great founded a "new city", Neapolis (), which later changed its name to Neoklaudioupolis (Νεοκλαυδιούπολις) or Neoclaudiopolis in Latin, the forerunner of modern Vezirköprü. In late antiquity, the town returned to its original name, Andrapa (Ἄνδραπα), and became a bishopric. It also minted coins bearing the dates and effigies of Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, and Caracalla.
  
  Its bishop Paralius was at the Council of Ephesus (431) and sent his deacon Eucharius to represent him at the Council of Chalcedon (451). Paulus was one of the signatories of the letter by which the bishops of the Roman province of Helenopontus, to which Andrapa belonged, protested to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian in 458 about the killing of Proterius of Alexandria. Ioannes was at the Third Council of Constantinople (680), Sergius at the Trullan Council (692). Theodorus was represented at the Second Council of Nicaea (787) by his deacon Marinus. Antonius took part in the Photian Council of Constantinople (879).
  
  No longer a residential bishopric, Andrapa is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.
  
  Composition
  There are 161 neighbourhoods in Vezirköprü District:
  
   Abdülgani
   Adatepe
   Ağcaalan
   Ağcayazı
   Ahmetbaba
   Akören
   Alanbaşı
   Alancık
   Alanköy
   Alanşeyhi
   Altınkaya
   Arıca
   Atatürk
   Avdan
   Aydınlı
   Aydoğdu
   Ayvalı
   Bahçekonak
   Bahçelievler
   Bahçesaray
   Bakla
   Başalan
   Başfakı
   Bayramköy
   Bektaş
   Belalan
   Beşpınar
   Boğaköy
   Boğazkoru
   Boruk
   Burhaniye
   Büyükkale
   Çakırtaş
   Çalköy
   Çalman
   Çaltı
   Çamlıca
   Çamlıdere
   Çamlıkonak
   Çanaklı
   Çayırbaşı
   Cebeli
   Çekalan
   Çekmeden
   Çeltek
   Çorakdere
   Cumhuriyet
   Darıçayalanı
   Darıçay
   Değirmenbaşı
   Devalan
   Doyran
   Duruçay
   Elaldı
   Elbeyi
   Elmalı
   Esen
   Esentepe
   Esenyurt
   Fazıl Ahmet Paşa
   Göl
   Göl Yeni
   Göllüalan
   Gömlekhisar
   Güder
   Güldere
   Habibfakı
   Hacılı
   Halilbaba
   Halkahavlı
   Hayranlı
   Hıdırlık
   İmircik
   İncesu
   İnkaya
   Kabalı
   Kadıçayırı
   Kadıoğlu
   Kapaklı
   Kapaklıeşme
   Kaplancık
   Karabük
   Karacaören
   Karadoruk
   Karaköy
   Karanar
   Karapınar
   Karkucak
   Karlı
   Kavakpınarı
   Kılıçgüney
   Kıranalan
   Kıratbükü
   Kırma
   Kızılcakoru
   Kızılcaören
   Kızılkese
   Kocakaya
   Köprübaşı
   Kovalı
   Küçükkale
   Kületek
   Kumral
   Kuruçay
   Kuşçular
   Kuyaş
   Kuyumcu
   Mahmatlı
   Mehmetpaşa
   Melikli
   Meşeli
   Mezraa
   Nalbantlı
   Narlısaray
   Öğürlü
   Örencik
   Ortacamii
   Ortaköy
   Oruç
   Ovacık
   Oymaağaç
   Özesentepe
   Özgüney
   Özkuruçay
   Özyörük
   Paşaköy
   Pazarcı
   Samukalan
   Samur
   Saraycık
   Saraylı
   Sarıalan
   Sarıdibek
   Sarıyar
   Şentepe
   Sırbaşmak
   Sofular
   Soğucak
   Susuz
   Tabakhane
   Tahtaköprü
   Taşkale
   Taşlıyük
   Tatarkale
   Teberük
   Tekkekıranı
   Tepeören
   Tikenli
   Türkmen
   Yağcı
   Yağınözü
   Yarbaşı
   Yeni
   Yeniçelik
   Yenidüzce
   Yeşilada
   Yeşiltepe
   Yolpınar
   Yukarınarlı
   Yurtdağı
   Yürükçal
  
  Literature 
   
   
   
   
   Bekker-Nielsen, T., R. Czichon, C. Høgel, B. Kıvrak, J.M. Madsen, V. Sauer, S.L. Sørensen & K. Winther-Jacobsen 2015. Ancient Neoklaudiopolis (Vezirköprü in Samsun Province): A Historical and Archaeological Guide. Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları.
  
  External links 
   Vezirköprü Information Page
   Vezirköprü Municipality
   Vezirköprü Facebook FanPage
   University of Southern Denmark
  
  References 
  
   
  Populated places in Samsun Province
  Paphlagonia
  Districts of Samsun Province
  Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey