The name that opens the alphabetical list of the hundred settlements of Amasya's central district that remain villages is Abacı, and 398 people lived in the village in 2025. A second village of the same name lies in the Göynücek district; the information on migration and custom recorded there does not concern this village, and no documented link exists between the two settlements. No published village study, register of listed buildings or local history of the Abacı in the central district has been found. What follows is therefore limited to what can be drawn from the official lists in which the village's name appears and from the population records.

The Name and the Old Records

Bekir Başalan, who lists the villages of the central district on the basis of Interior Ministry data for 2024, leaves Abacı among the villages whose names were not changed; no other official name is known for the village. The name itself is an occupational name in Turkish, denoting someone who weaves or sells aba, a thick woollen cloth. No record has been found showing that such a craft was practised in the village, or that the name came from a person or a family. In the published index of the 1530 accounts register of Karaman and Rûm the name does not appear among the villages of the liva of Amasya; the only "Abacı" entry in the index is a community (cemaat) in the sub-district of Katar, which cannot be connected with the countryside of Amasya. Nor does the name Abacı occur in Hüsâmeddîn Yasar's accounts of the sub-districts and their villages, or among the villages of the Akdağ sub-district listed in the study of the 1844-1845 income registers. In which century the village was founded, and whether it appears under another name in older records, therefore remains an open question.

Population

The village's recent story is told most clearly by its population series. In 2007, the first year of the address-based registration system, 628 people lived in the village; the figure fell a little almost every year, to 507 in 2015, 468 in 2020 and 398 in 2025. In nineteen years the village lost more than a third of its population, 230 people in all. The decline did not take the form of a sudden emptying: the sharpest losses were 33 people in 2009 and 26 in 2010, and in the following years the fall mostly stayed between six and twenty people; the only small rise in the series comes in 2013 (from 526 to 531). In 2025, 195 men and 203 women were registered in the village. In a village of this size an average annual loss of about 12 people is small enough to be explained by a few households moving to the city or to other provinces, but there are no village-specific data on the direction or causes of this migration.

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