The history of education in Amasya begins with the madrasas founded under the Danishmendids, the Seljuks, the Ilkhanids and the Ottomans, and for centuries it took shape around these institutions. Because of its standing as a centre of learning in the Islamic period, the city was known by names such as Baghdad of Rum (Bağdâdü'r-Rûm) and Dome of the Scholars (Kubbetü'l-Ulemâ). In the second half of the nineteenth century the madrasa order declined and began to give way to the new type of school opened by the state. The first link in this transition was the Amasya Rüştiye, opened in the mid-1860s on the site of a demolished madrasa. It was followed by the Amasya Teacher Training School (Darülmuallimin), founded after 1882, and by the Amasya Mekteb-i Idadisi, which grew out of the rüştiye when it was raised in rank in the second half of the 1890s. The teacher training schools, Amasya High School and the higher education institutions that followed them make up the city's present educational network.

From Madrasa to New School

The number of learned institutions in Amasya reached its peak between 1398 and 1592. When the city ceased to be a Pasha sanjak and was attached to the province of Sivas, a stagnation set in, the decline became pronounced after 1800, and many scholarly and charitable institutions fell into ruin. Hüsameddin explains that the madrasas had once been ranked in three grades, of forty, fifty and sixty, and that a professor could move up a grade only after teaching for at least five years at each. In his account this order was kept until around 1100 (1688-89); afterwards the passing of professorships from father to son undermined the old system, and ceremony and custom took the place of teaching and thought. The records also show the scale of the transformation. According to the Sivas Yearbook of 1870, 718 Muslim pupils attended twenty-seven primary schools in the city. Thirty-one madrasas housed twenty-six preachers, twenty-three imams, forty-four madrasa professors and 278 students. An Armenian primary school had 195 pupils.

The madrasas survived for some time after the new schools were opened. According to the education yearbook of 1903, 530 students were studying in nineteen madrasas in the district of Amasya, while in the other districts of the sanjak there were 288 students in six madrasas at Köprü and 184 in three madrasas at Gümüşhacıköy. The same records show that ten of the seventeen libraries identified in the province of Sivas were in the sanjak of Amasya. The libraries of Abdüllatif Efendi, Şeyh İsmail Efendi, Sultan Bayezid and Pervane Bey in the city head this list. The picture shows that even in the years when madrasa learning was in decline, the sanjak of Amasya was the best-equipped part of the province in terms of cultural institutions.

The Amasya Rüştiye

The first step toward the new type of school was taken with the rüştiye, the upper primary school, and in Amasya that step was taken on the site of a madrasa. The Alaca Yahyâ Madrasa, east of the Sarachâne Mosque on the bank of the Yeşilırmak, had been built around 775 (1373-74) by Şâdgeldi Pasha, the emir of Amasya, and took its name from Alaca Yahyâ Bey, tutor (lala) to Bayezid II during his governorship of Amasya, who restored it and regulated its endowments in 875 (1470-71). In the nineteenth century Bakırcızâde Hâfız Nûreddîn Mehmed Efendi, who inherited the professorship, was pursuing a career as a judge and ran the post through a deputy, and the madrasa was left abandoned. According to Hüsameddin, Ziyâ Pasha, the governor of Amasya, had the madrasa demolished in 1281 (1864-65) and built in its place "a perfect, lofty Rüşdiye School". Another account gives the date of demolition as 1864 and names the Ministry of Education as the authority that ordered it. The opening of the school, according to another note by Hüsameddin, took place in 1282 (1865-66).

Several names from the school's first staff appear in Hüsameddin's biographies. Ahmed Kâmilî Efendi, a calligrapher skilled in ta'lik and thuluth who taught writing to pupils at his house in the Şehreküstü quarter, became calligraphy teacher of the rüştiye opened in 1282. It was normal for a provincial rüştiye to have a first teacher and a calligraphy teacher, with a second teacher added where pupils were numerous, and the school in Amasya worked on this pattern. Hüsameddin names Şeyhzâde Hâfız eş-Şeyh Mehmed Ali Efendi as his own second teacher. Enver Ahmed Efendi, son of Şirvânî Hacı Mustafa Efendi, took the place of his father, who died in 1298 (1880-81), as third teacher of the rüştiye and remained in the post for sixteen years. In the same year Arhavili Osman Remzi Efendi, one of the rüştiye's teachers, was also busy with the repair of the Kâşifiye Madrasa, where he had been appointed professor.

Hüsameddin's own schooling is the record that shows most closely how the school worked in the 1880s. Having memorised the Qur'an at the Balcı School in 1296 (1878-79), the future historian entered the rüştiye in 1300 (1882-83). For four years he studied Turkish, Arabic, Persian, history, geography, geometry and arithmetic, took lessons in calligraphy, and in 1304 (1886-87), thanks to the support of his teacher Arhavili Osman Remzi Efendi, finished the school at the top of his class. In his third year, lodging in the room above the fatwa office next to the Abdüllatif Efendi Library, he read Sa'dî's Bostan, Firdawsi's Shahnameh and the Divan of Hafiz with Enver Ahmed Efendi. Among others who left the rüştiye first in their class were Erzurûmîzâde Hüsnü Yusuf Efendi, who graduated in 1301, and his brother Emîn Ali Mehmed Efendi, who graduated in 1302.

The rüştiye was the gateway through which young men of Amasya reached the higher schools of Istanbul. Hacı Es'ad Ağazâde Hamdi Mehmed Bey, who enrolled in the year the school first opened, went on to Istanbul, entered the School of Law and rose to posts as public prosecutor, appeals court official and district governor. Another pupil, known by the nickname Desterecizâde, moved on to the military idadi at Erzurum, while a contemporary known as Saçlızâde and Hikmetzâde Hilmi Mehmed Bey went to the military idadi at Kuleli and then completed the War College. Emîroğlu Sâmî Mehmed Bey of Merzifon studied at the rüştiye in Amasya before graduating from the School of Civil Administration (Mülkiye), and in 1326 (1910) he became director of education in Aleppo. Many of those trained in the school's calligraphy lessons also went on to posts as court clerks, in the finance office and in the sharia courts.

The building Ziyâ Pasha had put up, which in Hüsameddin's words "served for thirty years to enlighten the minds of the country and raised a great many bright pupils", burned in the fire of 1311 (1893-94) and remained an empty lot for some fifteen years. In 1328 (1910) Topçuzâde Hacı Halil Efendi and his brother Münib Bey, notables of the town, spent a large sum to build a primary school on the lot and a fatwa office on the side facing the mosque, keeping the name of the old school alive. Osman Fevzi Olcay, describing the Sarachâne Market, mentions as one of its landmarks "the Rüşdiye School built by the famous Ziya Pasha but later damaged". Hüsameddin says that it was only in 1300 (1882-83) that one school was recognised as insufficient for a large sanjak centre and three more primary schools were opened. When the French author Vital Cuinet visited the city in 1891 he gave figures for Muslim schools, but the numbers he reports appear inconsistent and should not be taken as firm. The Sivas Yearbook of 1892 also records that one rüştiye and four primary schools were opened in Amasya. After the fire the idadi took the place of the rüştiye, and a girls' primary school was opened on the site of the old Kurdish School.

Rüştiyes spread to the districts of the sanjak as well. At Havza the primary school opened in 1300 was converted into a rüştiye in 1312 (1894-95), and the primary school built at Mecidözü in 1306 became a rüştiye in the same year. According to the education yearbooks for 1898-1903, between eighty-seven and one hundred and five pupils attended the rüştiye at Merzifon, between eighty-six and one hundred and twenty the one at Ladik, and between forty-six and sixty-one the one at Mecidözü. No separate rüştiye appears for the centre of Amasya in the same lists. This is consistent with the conversion of the central rüştiye into an idadi in these years.

The innovation did not come from the state alone. After the proclamation of the Constitutional Monarchy in 1908 two more schools were opened in the city. Zileli Hasan Efendi had two schools built, one in the Tatar quarter and the other in the courtyard of the Sultan Bayezid Mosque. The school that Topçuzâde Halil Efendi and his brother built on the site of the old rüştiye also belongs to these years, and the Committee of Union and Progress club opened a school named Ravza-yı İttihat in the Kazancı quarter. Yumuk Osmanzâde Mehmed Hamdi Efendi contributed to the spread of reading by building a library in the courtyard of the Sultan Bayezid Mosque. Foreign schools were also active in the city at the same time. Besides the Armenian Bartevian College, a French society opened a church and a school in 1883, and in 1892 Muslim families were forbidden to enrol their children in these schools. The largest foreign school in the sanjak, however, was the American College at Merzifon. Hüsameddin writes that it opened in 1300 with a programme at rüştiye and idadi level and contained a craft workshop and a hospital. The education yearbooks give its founding year as 1280 and show 310 boys and 200 girls at the school.

Teacher Training Schools in the Ottoman Empire

The idea of opening special schools to train teachers dates from the Tanzimat period. Earlier, madrasa professors were trained in the madrasas themselves, and under Fâtih Sultan Mehmed a special programme containing pedagogical formation courses was applied in the Hagia Sophia and Eyüp madrasas to prepare teachers for the primary schools (sıbyan mektebi). This practice was not continued in later periods. To meet the teacher needs of the rüştiye schools opened in the last years of Mahmud II, the Dârülmuallimîn was opened in the Fatih district of Istanbul on 16 March 1848. The three-year school was placed under Ahmed Cevdet Efendi, later known as Cevdet Pasha. The regulation he prepared drew the institutional framework of the school in the early 1850s and set out admission conditions, the courses to be taught and the status of graduates.

A separate path was followed for primary school teachers. After the primary schools were attached to the Ministry of Education, the two-year Dârülmuallimîn-i Sıbyân was opened in 1868. This school is regarded as the foundation of today's class teaching. Closed after a few years, it was reopened in 1872. The General Education Regulation of 1869 aimed to gather the teacher training institutions under a single roof. According to this plan the Great Dârülmuallimîn in Istanbul was to be established with rüştiye, idadi and sultani branches. The idadi branch could only be opened in the 1870s, and the sultani branch was never opened. The Dârülmuallimât was founded in 1870 to train women teachers.

Attempts to open teacher training schools in the provinces are seen from 1872. A dârülmuallimîn had begun operating in Bosnia in 1873 and in Crete and Konya in 1874-1875. Their number grew under Abdülhamid II. From 1882 onward dârülmuallimîns continued to open in the provincial centres of Kosovo, Sivas, Amasya, Bursa, Salonica, Aydın, Aleppo, Ma'mûretülazîz, Van and Mosul. Provincial dârülmuallimîns were generally two-year schools and mostly housed a primary branch. Opening a rüştiye branch was a rare occurrence. In the 1905-1906 school year the number of dârülmuallimîns in the country rose to thirty-six. The expenses of these schools were generally met from the centre while local resources were also used. In some places schools called medrese-i muallimîn were attempted by making use of old madrasa buildings, professors and students.

The Amasya Darülmuallimin

The Amasya Darülmuallimin is one of the provincial teacher training schools opened after 1882. Mentioned together with centres such as Sivas, Bursa, Salonica and Aydın, the school was the first regular step in training teachers for the region. The information we have on its founding is limited to this. No verified detail could be found on its building, the date of its founding order, its first director or its number of graduates. Since the general structure of the provincial dârülmuallimîns is known, an indirect idea of how it worked can be had. Education lasted two years, and students were generally trained to serve in primary schools that taught by the new method.

The school's continuity is also uncertain. In the education yearbooks for 1898-1903 the province of Sivas has only one dârülmuallimîn, and it is in Sivas. Even there the staff consisted of a director and a single teacher, and enrolment was nine in 1898 and twenty-one in 1903. The absence of the Amasya school from the yearbooks of these years suggests that the institution opened after 1882 was short-lived or was refounded later, but no direct document on the question has been found. That the school was working in the years of the Constitutional Monarchy, on the other hand, is certain. According to the account of his life that Osman Fevzi Olcay wrote himself in 1954, after finishing the idadi and studying mathematics in Istanbul for a year, Olcay returned to Amasya and, while attending madrasa lessons at the Mehmet Paşa Mosque, enrolled at the Amasya Darülmuallimin in 1327 (1911-12) and obtained a certificate there as well. Olcay later took on the post of calligraphy teacher for all the schools in Amasya.

A common curriculum was prepared for provincial dârülmuallimîns in the 1890s. Provincial teachers who were not graduates of a dârülmuallimîn attended these branches for a time to make up their shortcomings. Even so, the expected result was not obtained because of a shortage of staff. With the Provisional Law on Primary Education that came into force in 1913 the opening of a teacher training school in every province was adopted, but their administration and budget were left to local authorities. After the Dârülmuallimîn and Dârülmuallimât Regulation issued in 1915, and with the hardships of the war years added, interest in these schools declined. Expenses and teachers' salaries could not be met from provincial budgets. Conditions worsened during the War of Independence, and after the Armistice of Mudros the provincial dârülmuallimîns, most of which were left outside the country's borders, closed of their own accord. No verified record could be found of when and how the school in Amasya came to an end in this process.

In 1922 there were 114 teachers in the primary schools of Amasya. Seven of them were dârülmuallim graduates and seven held a teaching diploma. Four were graduates of a middle school, twenty-nine of a primary school and eleven of a madrasa. Eight had been trained through other channels and nine worked without a licence. This picture shows that graduates of the dârülmuallim made up only a small part of the city's teaching staff. At the beginning of the 1923-1924 school year there were thirteen teacher training schools in Turkey, Istanbul included. With Law No. 326, which came into force on 8 April 1923, the expenses and salaries of all schools were taken into the budget of the Ministry of Education from September of the same year. In the Republican period these schools were first named Muallim Mektebi and then Öğretmen Okulu (Teacher Training School).

The Amasya Mekteb-i Idadisi

The idadi schools were intermediate schools that followed the rüştiye and prepared pupils for higher education. In Amasya the institution of this level was the Amasya Mekteb-i Idadisi, and it grew directly out of the rüştiye. Its founding year is given differently in the sources. Today's Amasya High School dates its history from 1895. In Hüsameddin's biographies it is written that the rüştiye was raised to idadi rank in 1314 (1896-97) and that Enver Ahmed Efendi became teacher of Persian literature at that time. In the same year Türbeli Hâfız Sebâtî Mehmed Efendi of Erzurum was also appointed teacher of Persian at the idadi. In the section where Hüsameddin surveys the city's institutions of learning as a whole, however, the idadi is said to have opened in 1315 (1897-98) on the site of the Beyler Palace, with its pupils coming from the old rüştiye. The difference between the three dates may reflect the time between the decision to create an idadi, the start of teaching with the rüştiye staff and the move to the new building. The school opened as a second-class idadi, and the Ministry of Education raised it to first class early in 1330 (1912).

A study based on archival documents also shows that the idadi building was erected on the site of the old Beyler Palace. The building has a roughly square plan, and in the inner courtyard at its centre stands a fountain with four faces. Photographs of the building appear in the Sivas Provincial Yearbook, and these images carry its appearance in its own time to the present. Olcay too calls the school "the Idadi School at Saraydüzü in Amasya" and notes that a gendarmerie post stood in front of the building. Further detail on its architecture is not given here because the full text of that study could not be consulted.

The education yearbooks give figures for the school's first years. At the end of the nineteenth century the province of Sivas had three idadis, at Sivas, Amasya and Tokat. The Amasya Mekteb-i Idadisi had 91 pupils in 1898, 72 in 1899, 111 in 1900, 121 in 1901 and 97 in 1903. The school was not open to Muslims alone, and in 1903 nine of its pupils were non-Muslims. The small interest of non-Muslims in these schools is explained by the large number of their own community schools in the province. According to the yearbooks for 1898-1903, the district of Amasya had one rüştiye and ten primary schools belonging to non-Muslims.

Idadi curricula generally included courses such as mathematics, geography, history, literature and a foreign language, and in this respect they differed sharply from madrasa education. According to the course tables in the yearbooks, geometry, bookkeeping, geography, ethics, religious sciences, arithmetic, French, Turkish, drawing, calligraphy and Persian were taught in all three idadis of the province. Besides the director and assistant directors, a large teaching staff served in these idadis. Olcay refers to the school's director as "our late master Osman Remzi, Director of the Idadi School". It is quite possible that this director was the same man as Arhavili Osman Remzi Efendi, whom Hüsameddin names as his teacher at the rüştiye, but the two records are not explicitly linked.

Pupils and Graduates

Olcay's memoirs are a rare source that introduces the idadi's classes by name in the years close to the Constitutional Monarchy. Olcay had begun primary school at the Çukurkonak Primary School in the Mehmet Paşa quarter and finished it at the Çevikçe School, then enrolled at the Saraydüzü Idadi and completed it with a grade of very good. He remembers his classmates by their school numbers. Mehmet Hilmi, son of Hamamcı Hakkı Efendi, number 12; Şerafeddin of the Mehmet Alioğlu family, number 22; Ahmet Emri, number 4; Sabri, number 58; Karabacak Mehmet Ali, number 17; and Ali Rıza, son of the mayor Musa Efendi, were in the same class, and Olcay's own number was 95. Sabri Efendi, one of the sons of the mufti Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi, had graduated a year earlier. Ahmed and Nuri Efendi of the Bektaşzâde family, Nail, son of Saatçi Yusuf Efendi, Hasip, son of Telgrafçı Hasan Efendi, and Poli, number 86, were in his class. The presence in this list of Poli, whose name suggests he was a non-Muslim, matches the non-Muslim pupils the yearbooks record at the idadi.

Graduates of the idadi soon found their place in state service. Hacı İsa Efendizâde Es'ad Ahmed Bey, born in the Kocacık quarter of Amasya, left the school with a diploma, went to Istanbul, graduated from the School of Civil Administration with the highest grade and, after several posts as district governor, became governor of the sanjak of Lazistan. Because of his service in the National Forces organisation he was elected deputy for Amasya in 1341 (1923) and kept the seat in the elections of 1345 and 1349. Nail, son of Saatçi Yusuf Efendi, qualified as a doctor from the Military Medical School. Olcay did more than graduate from the idadi, for he later taught at the same school. He records that Turgut, the eldest son of the pasha who had been his commander in the Balkan War, "was one of my pupils at the Idadi School".

In 1912, the year the idadi was raised to first class, the number of primary schools in the city was increased from three to six, and because a single girls' school was not enough a second was opened in the Üçler quarter. An encyclopaedia article gives this information as the number of idadis rising to six, whereas in Hüsameddin's text it is the primary schools that were increased to six. In the early years of the Republic the city's secondary education went through constant change. In 1920 three middle schools are recorded, a lise, a dârülhilafe and an idadi, and in 1921 a sultani, a dârülhilafe and three middle schools. In 1923 three middle schools are again counted, a sultani, an idadi and a dârülhilafe. In 1924 Arabic and Persian courses were removed from the schools converted from sultanis into lycées. At that time thirteen teachers, the director included, served at the provincial lycée in the centre.

Amasya High School

Today's Amasya High School is the continuation of the Amasya Mekteb-i Idadisi. The school, which served as an idadi, gave instruction as Amasya Middle School from 1926. Its high school section was opened in the 1954-1955 school year, and Emin Çakıroğlu was appointed director. The middle school section was gradually abolished starting with the 1993-1994 school year. From the 2008-2009 school year the school became an Anatolian High School while keeping its name. The building now in use was moved into during the mid-year break of the 2011-2012 school year. According to the school's own records, it has so far produced more than twenty thousand graduates, many of them well known at home and abroad.

The School Network in the Republican Period

During the War of Independence education in the city was disrupted, and the number of teachers in primary schools fell from 125 in 1923 to eighty-eight in 1927. After the alphabet reform a literacy mobilisation in the new letters was launched and instructors were assigned. The Regulation on the Organisation of Nation Schools of 24 November 1928 made it compulsory for people between the ages of fourteen and forty-five who could not read and write in the new letters to attend the nation schools opened in the neighbourhoods.

The primary school network expanded in this period. The Kılıcaslan School, opened in 1925 as a girls' school, took the name Kılıcaslan Primary School three years later, and its first director was İsmet Şâkir. Its building was used for a time as the Rectorate of Amasya University, for a while as the Governorate of Amasya and in its last period as a Public Education Centre. Yeşilırmak Primary School, as old as Amasya High School, was founded in 1906 and its first director was Ethem Hoca. Plevne Primary School opened in 1927 and Üçler Primary School in 1928. Atatürk Primary School entered service in 1947, Yavuz Selim Primary School in 1958, the Bayezid and Ziyâ Pasha primary schools in 1959, Mehmetçik in 1960, Hürriyet in 1961 and Yazıbağları in 1965.

Vocational education and the education of women also developed in the same period. The Amasya Girls' Institute opened in 1943 as an Evening Girls' Art School, became an institute in 1957, and its first director was Nuran Tohumcu. The Boys' Art Institute began teaching in 1947 as a Middle Art School, and Hamdi Ciritlioğlu was appointed its first director. The Amasya Girls' Teacher Training School began operating in the 1961-1962 school year. The school lasted three years, its first director was Kemal Uğur, and it produced ninety-five graduates in 1965. In 2003 there were 14,137 students in thirty-three high schools in Amasya: nine general high schools, three Anatolian high schools, one science high school, one Anatolian teacher training high school and nineteen vocational high schools.

The Move to Higher Education

The National Education Basic Law No. 1739 of 1973 required higher education of teacher candidates at every level. As a result, two-year institutes of education began to be founded from 1974. The Amasya Institute of Education opened in the 1974-1975 school year in the buildings of the Amasya Girls' Teacher Training School, with the administration and teaching staff of the same school. When it opened it had 38 students and 17 staff members. Between 1975 and 1980 a shortage of teaching staff, political events and pressures reshaped teacher training policy. In March 1978 the institute suspended education indefinitely, reopened in the summer of the same year under the name "Rapid Education", and suspended it again in December 1979. The institution, which began teaching at the start of 1980 under the name "Distance Education Programme", closed in September of the same year. In 1981 the number of institutes in the country was reduced to seventeen. One of the institutes that continued teaching in 1981-1982, with 28 students, was Amasya. Between 1974 and 1982 the institution produced 1,396 graduates. The Vocational School opened in 1975 also joined the city's higher education base.

Responsibility for teacher training passed to the universities in 1982. By Decree Law No. 41 the institute was attached to Ondokuz Mayıs University under the name Amasya Higher School of Education, giving a two-year associate degree. A YÖK decision of 1989 required teachers to have at least a bachelor's degree, and from the 1990-1991 school year the school was raised to a four-year bachelor's level. Law No. 3836 of 2 July 1992 turned the school into the Amasya Faculty of Education from the 1992-1993 school year. From 1993-1994 programmes in physics, chemistry, biology, Turkish language and literature, mathematics and history teaching were opened. The move to eight years of uninterrupted compulsory education in 1997 required a new structure, and from 1998-1999 departments of physical education, computer and instructional technologies, educational sciences, primary education, Turkish education and foreign language education were established.

Amasya University was founded by Law No. 5467 of 1 March 2006, and the law was published in the Official Gazette of 17 March 2006. Zafer Eren became the founding rector. The Faculty of Education continued under this roof as the Amasya University Faculty of Education. From 2008-2009 programmes in computer and instructional technologies and in guidance and psychological counselling were opened, and from 2012-2013 English language teaching. In 2023 the university's rector was Süleyman Elmacı. The faculties of Education, Medicine, Health Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Architecture and Theology, the Merzifon Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and eight vocational colleges in the districts were in service. In the same year the city had twenty-two schools under the General Directorate of Religious Education, thirty under the General Directorate of Vocational and Technical Education, sixteen under the General Directorate of Secondary Education, twenty under the General Directorate of Special Education and Guidance Services, and 203 under the General Directorate of Basic Education.

Chronology

1848: The Dârülmuallimîn opened in Fatih, Istanbul.

1864-1865: Ziyâ Pasha had the Alaca Yahyâ Madrasa demolished and a rüştiye building put up in its place (1864 in another account).

1865-1866: The Amasya Rüştiye began teaching.

1882: The opening of provincial dârülmuallimîns began, and the Amasya Darülmuallimin was founded in this period. In the same year (1300) three more primary schools were opened in the city.

1886-1887: Hüseyin Hüsameddin graduated from the rüştiye at the top of his class.

1893-1894: The rüştiye building burned in the fire of 1311.

1895: According to Amasya High School's own history, the Amasya Mekteb-i Idadisi was founded.

1896-1897: According to Hüsameddin, the rüştiye was raised to idadi rank.

1897-1898: The idadi opened on the site of the Beyler Palace (1315).

1898-1903: According to the education yearbooks, between 72 and 121 pupils studied at the idadi.

1910: Topçuzâde Halil Efendi and Münib Bey built a primary school on the lot of the old rüştiye.

1911-1912: Osman Fevzi Olcay enrolled at the Amasya Darülmuallimin.

1912: The idadi was raised to a first-class idadi, and the number of primary schools rose to six.

1926: The idadi continued as Amasya Middle School.

1954-1955: The high school section was opened.

1974-1975: The Amasya Institute of Education began teaching.

1982: The institute became the Higher School of Education attached to Ondokuz Mayıs University.

1992: The higher school became the Faculty of Education (Law No. 3836).

2006: Amasya University was founded (Law No. 5467).

2011-2012: Amasya High School moved into its present building.

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