Turkey
Samsun Province
Alaçam İlçesi

Alaçam

Alaçam is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 598 km2, and its population is 24,647. Scholars believe that Alaçam is the site of the ancient city of Zaliche or Zaliches.
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  • Type: Town with 24,900 residents
  • Description: ilçe (district), administrative county of Samsun, northern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Alacam”, “Alaçam district”, “Alacham”, “Zalecus”, and “Zaliscus”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yakakent.

Town
Photo: sami yılmaz, CC BY 3.0.
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 204 km2, and its population is 8,693. It is located on the Black Sea coast. is situated 6 km northwest of Alaçam.

Alaçam

Latitude
41.60686° or 41° 36′ 25″ north
Longitude
35.59733° or 35° 35′ 50″ east
Population
24,900
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
Open location code
8GHQJH4W+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27010660
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
752259
Wiki­data ID
Q1947471
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Alaçam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ألاجام”
  • Arabic: “أَلَاجَام”
  • Armenian: “Ալաչամ”
  • Asturian: “Alaçam (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Alaçam”
  • Bavarian: “Alaçam”
  • Cebuano: “Alaçam İlçesi”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئالاچام”
  • Chechen: “Алачам”
  • Chinese: “Alaçam”
  • Chinese: “阿拉恰姆”
  • Dutch: “Alaçam”
  • French: “Alaçam”
  • Gagauz: “Alaçam”
  • German: “Alaçam”
  • Gilaki: “آلاچام”
  • Irish: “Alaçam”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Alaçam”
  • Lithuanian: “Alačamas”
  • Malay: “Alaçam”
  • Mazanderani: “آلاچام”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alaçam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alaçam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alaçam”
  • Norwegian: “Alaçam”
  • Persian: “آلاچام”
  • Persian: “الاچام”
  • Pontic: “Αλατσάμ”
  • Pontic: “Αλατςάμ”
  • Russian: “Алачам”
  • Serbian: “Алачам”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلاچام”
  • Swahili: “Alaçam”
  • Tatar: “Алачам”
  • Turkish: “Alaçam”
  • Urdu: “الاچام”
  • Vietnamese: “Alaçam”
  • Western Mari: “Алачам”
  • “Alaçam ilçesi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alaçam”. Photo: Chawol, CC BY-SA 3.0.