Sent in October 1898, this postcard is one of the 'first ones ever made' depicting the major Black Sea port city of Samsoum, according to the message on the front. Samsoum (now usually rendered 'Samsun') and district then had around 350,000 inhabitants (369,000 in the 1906/7 census), of whom approximately one-third were non-Muslims (Greeks and Armenians). Samsoum later played an important part in the Turkish 'War of Independence' after the First World War: on May 19, 1919 Atatürk landed there to begin organizing the defence of Anatolia.
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