Merzifon

Merzifon is a town and area in Amasya Province in the focal Black Sea locale of Turkey. It covers a territory of 970 square kilometers 370 sq mi, and the populace 2010 is 69,237 of which 52,947 live in the town of Merzifon, the rest of all through the encompassing wide open. The leader is Alp Kargi CHP. Archeological proof many entombment hills höyük demonstrate settlement of this all around watered farmland since the stone age no less than 5500 BC.

The principal fortresses were worked by the Hittites, who were pushed out around 1200BC by intruders rolling in from the adjacent Black Sea. From 700BC the fortresses were reconstructed by the Phrygians, who left ious internment hills and other engineering. From 600BC the Phrygians were pushed out by more attacks from the east, this time Cimmerians from over the Caucasus mountains; graves from this period have been uncovered and their substance showed in the exhibition hall in Amasya. Merzifon at that point turned into an exchanging post of the lords of Pontus, whose led the Black Sea drift from their capital in Amasya.