The settlements of the province of Amasya range from neighbourhoods in the district towns to small villages on the mountain slopes. Many neighbourhood names preserve the name of a mosque, a dervish lodge, a waqf or a community of migrants. A number of villages, on the other hand, lost their old names in the renamings of the Republican period, and those names survive only in the records and in local speech. Behind each name lies the story of how a settlement was founded and how it changed.
This section arranges the settlements of the province district by district. Separate headings have been opened for the Central district, Göynücek, Gümüşhacıköy, Hamamözü, Merzifon, Suluova and Taşova, and under each district neighbourhoods and villages are grouped separately. The articles discuss the origin of each place name, how the settlement appears in Ottoman records, the historic buildings around it, population movements and its present condition.
The first completed series covers the forty neighbourhoods of the Central district. Nergis: The Old Helkis of Amasya, Hatuniye, Gökmedrese and Şamlar describe the historic quarters of the old town, and İhsaniye: The Tatar Migrant Quarter of Amasya the settlements founded by migrants. Yeşilyenice, Fındıklı and Ormanbağları deal with places that were villages before they became neighbourhoods. The Aşağı, Yukarı and Saraycık neighbourhoods of the township of Ziyaret are also part of the series. Details such as the naming of Kurşunlu after the Yağıbasan Han, or of Gümüşlü after the Gümüşlü Mosque and the Gümüşlüzade family, show how the city's history can be followed at the scale of the neighbourhood.