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About Amasya
Amasya is a city in northern Turkey and is the capital of Amasya Province, operating at a profit Sea Region. Tokat from east, Tokat and Yozgat from south, Corum from west, Samsun from north. The city of Amasya, the Amaseia or Amasia of antiquity, remains in the mountains over the Black Sea drift, set apart from whatever is left of Anatolia in a restricted valley along the banks of the Yesilırmak River.
Albeit close to the Black Sea, this zone is high over the drift and has an inland atmosphere, appropriate to developing apples, for which Amasya area, one of the territories in north-focal Anatolia Turkey, is popular. It was the home of the geographer Strabo and the origin of the 15th century researcher and doctor Amirdovlat Amasiatsi. Situated in a tight separated of the Yesilirmak Iris stream, it has a background marked by 7,500 years which has left numerous follows still obvious today.
In times long past, Amaseia was a strengthened city high on the precipices over the stream. It has a long history as a well off commonplace capital, creating rulers and sovereigns, specialists, researchers, writers and scholars, from the rulers of Pontus, through Strabo the geographer, to numerous ages of the Ottoman supreme line. With its Ottoman-period wooden houses and the tombs of the Pontus rulers cut into the precipices overhead, Amasya is alluring to guests. Lately there has been a considerable measure of interest in tourism and more outside and Turkish visitors visit the city.