Winter-night riddles, rain and crocus rhymes, the game words of Merzifon and the blessings and curses collected in Amasya, seen as part of the region's oral culture.
From Bayezid Pasha to Müeyyedzâde and from Yörgüç Pasha to Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, Amasya supplied the Ottoman state with viziers, kazaskers and grand viziers.
How Amasya gained electricity, water and sewerage: from the 1931 Merzifon plant through Durucasu and the Almus Dam to the rubber weir on the Yeşilırmak.
Born at Marınca near Merzifon and raised in the Köprülü household, Kara Mustafa Pasha served as grand vizier for seven years; his life covers the Siege of Vienna, his execution at Belgrade and his works in Merzifon.
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.
From the twelve-piece women's costume of Göynücek's Yörük villages to the gold-embroidered bindallı of the town and Merzifon cloth, the traditional dress culture of the Amasya region.
Between the villages of Çaybaşı and Balgöze in Merzifon, Kız Kayası Canyon holds rock tombs, an old bridge, mills, Iron Age traces recorded in surface surveys and Amazon legends, and is one of Amasya's lesser-known valleys.
Amasya lies in a high-hazard landscape shaped by the main strand of the North Anatolian Fault and by branch faults such as the Merzifon, Laçin and Ezinepazar faults.
The alluvial soils of the Geldingen, Suluova, Merzifon and Gümüş plains, their irrigation systems and the crop pattern built on them form the economic base of the province.
Amasya's 342,000 people cluster in the Yeşilırmak valley and the Merzifon and Suluova plains, while villages shrink and towns reach 77 percent of the total.
From the Seljuk caravan road and the Ottoman post-station network to Ziya Paşa's macadam road, the railway of 1927 and Merzifon Airport, the history and present of transport in Amasya's valley corridor between Samsun and Central Anatolia.
The history and architecture of the complex Kara Mustafa Pasha built in his home town between 1666 and 1679, with its mosque, stone khan, bedesten, bathhouses and water channels.
Begun in 1414 on the order of Mehmed I, the four-iwan Sultaniye Madrasa is Merzifon's monumental example of early Ottoman madrasa architecture and was for four centuries one of the region's leading seats of learning.
The bedesten, han and surrounding arasta of the complex built by Kara Mustafa Pasha in the seventeenth century still carry on Merzifon's commercial life today.
The Pîrî Baba Tomb in Merzifon, with its lodge closed in 1826, its endowment, Bektashi wall paintings and pilgrimage customs, is one of the town's oldest places of devotion.
Cirit came from the steppe to Anatolia and was played in village grounds and market squares; Amasya's Bamyacılar and Merzifon's Lahanacılar carried the tradition into history.
Amasya's winter gatherings, the tel tel nights kept up by women and the kuzu çevirme meetings of Merzifon, belong to Anatolia's tradition of sohbet meetings.
The history of Merzifon from the mounds of its plain and its Hittite fortress through Pontic and Roman rule to the end of Byzantine control, with the Phazemon identification and the origin of the name debated.
In the summer of 1101 near Merzifon, Kilij Arslan I and Gümüştekin Gazi destroyed a Lombard, French and German Crusader army that was trying to cross Anatolia.
Merzifon fell to the Danishmendids after Manzikert and, after the Seljuks, Mongol governors, the Eretnids and the Taşanoğulları, came under Ottoman rule in the 1390s with Bayezid I.
Around the market built beside the Kara Mustafa Pasha complex, Merzifon's craftsmen kept the Ottoman guild order alive through mastery, apprenticeship and neighbourly rules.
The life of Pîrî Baba, a Qalandari dervish believed to have lived in fifteenth-century Merzifon, is told through legends that range from a bathhouse furnace to the sultan's court.
From the Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Madrasa to the Sufi lodges, Merzifon sent professors, judges and mystics across Anatolia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Opened in 1886, the American College of Merzifon was one of Anatolia's largest missionary schools, with a campus of forty buildings, a multinational faculty and a continuation in Thessaloniki.
Aviation in Merzifon began in 1935 with Czech-built Smolik aircraft, took permanent form with the 4th Aircraft Regiment in 1942 and became the 5th Air Base Command in 1961.
Entered by British troops in March 1919, Merzifon held a decisive place in the Black Sea interior through the Pontus dispute around its American College and local resistance.
Watered by the Tersakan Stream, the Merzifon Plain has been the district's livelihood since Strabo's Thousand Villages, from grain and vineyards to sunflowers and industry.
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