City of Princes
Rock tombs, Ottoman mansions and a two thousand year old story in the reflection of Yeşilırmak.
Amasya05 is a comprehensive digital city archive covering Amasya's history, places to visit, culture, art, local cuisine, districts, and notable historical figures.
For about 182 years Amasya was a princely sanjak; twelve princes served here and six took the throne. The system, the lala, the works and the end of the era.
The Amasya tale of Ferhat and Şirin told scene by scene, its variants, its literary journey from Nizâmî and Nevâyî to Nâzım Hikmet, and the canal, monument and Lovers' Museum.
Strabo, the geographer born at Amaseia, described his own city in the seventeen books of his Geographika as a place that is at once a city and a fortress in the valley of the Yeşilırmak.
In June 1919 Amasya saw the founding of its Defence of Rights Society and served as a headquarters run by telegraph, and in later years it became one of the supply centres behind the front.
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How Amasya flower okra is picked with its blossom, strung and dried, where it grows, and how it won designation-of-origin status in 2018.
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The sections of Amasya Castle on Mount Harşena, its history from Strabo to the Ottomans, excavation finds and visitor information, presented with their sources.
Ancient writers placed the Amazons at Themiskyra on the Thermodon, and the link with the name Amaseia is told here with legend and evidence kept apart.
In Amasya the damp of the Black Sea meets the continentality of Central Anatolia; measured data describe its transitional climate, the Yeşilırmak microclimate, the Misket apple and layered forests.
Set in the inner Black Sea belt between Samsun, Tokat, Yozgat and Çorum, Amasya is surveyed here by position, districts, elevation and the city built into the Yeşilırmak valley.
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Couplet of the Day
Yaḳasuz seni ḳodı ṣanma güzeller Mihrî
Nice senüñ gibi bunda yeler oñmaz bulunur
O Mihrî, do not think that you alone have been left collarless, torn and disordered by the beautiful ones; many like you, who run and run and never recover, are to be found here (on the path of love). The couplet can be read in two ways: "yaḳasuz" can describe...
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The life of Muhyiddin Mehmed, the Arab Preacher, who studied under al-Suyuti, served Qaitbay, Bayezid II, Selim I and Süleyman, and preached on the Çaldıran campaign.
Born in Amasya in 1925, Perihan Altındağ Sözeri rose from a radio audition at thirteen to the casino stages and became one of the best-known female voices of Turkish art music.
Murad II's eldest son, "Ahmed the Elder," was born in Amasya in 1420, became sanjak governor of the same city in 1434-35 with his lala Şeyhî Mahmud Pasha, and died suddenly and young in 1438.
A single-minaret, cut-stone mosque built in 1483 in the Amasya market, in front of the bedesten, by Süleyman Ağa, chief of the pantry to Şehzade Ahmed, whose door inscription names a "Selim Ağa".
Built between 1873 and 1907 by Azeri disciples from Karabakh and Shirvan, the mosque and tomb hold the Amasya grave of the Naqshbandi sheikh and poet Mîr Hamza Nigârî.
TRT song no. 52, collected from Hanife Karabıyık: a karcığar melody with a free-rhythm opening, lyrics that begin with a call to the halay and turn to longing.
The slow and quick parts of Merzifon's "Dallike" ring dance: TRT no. 4602, recorded from Rasim Olgun in 1943 on two disc sides, an octave-wide Hüseynî tune.
The mosque built in 1680 by Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha in his native village in the name of his mother Abide Hatun, known for the painted decoration of its wooden ceiling from three periods.
A deyiş registered to Kul Cemal whose last stanza bears the name of Pir Sultan Abdal: the refrain "Sana medet yolun mürvet ya Ali", unresolved words and a full-octave tune.
The beliefs told around the Pontic royal tombs on Harşena, from buried treasure and secret tunnels to tales of imprisonment and night lights, and the historical traces behind them.
Amasya is a historic city in the Yeşilırmak (Iris) river valley, in the Black Sea Region of northern Türkiye, located at roughly 40.65° N, 35.83° E.
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