Amasra
Amasra is a small harbour and beach resort on the Black Sea, 310 km north of Ankara in the Western Karadeniz region of Turkey. In 2021 it had a population of 6098, with about another 8000 in its outlying villages.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 6,680 residents
- Description: town and district in Bartın Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Amasreh”, “Amassera”, “Amastra”, “Amastreía”, “Amastris”, “Ámastris”, “Samastra”, “Sésamos”, “Sesamus”, “Ἄμαστρις”, and “Σήσαμος”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amasra Museum and Amasra Lighthouse.
Amasra Museum
Museum
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Amasra Museum is a museum in Amasra district of Bartın Province, northwestern Turkey. Established in 1982, it exhibits archaeological artifacts and ethnographic items. The museum is visited by more than 50,000 tourists yearly.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gömü and Ahatlar.
Gömü
Village
Gömü is a village in the Amasra District, Bartın Province, Turkey. Its population is 457.
Ahatlar
Village
Ahatlar is a village in the Amasra District, Bartın Province, Turkey. Its population is 318.
Bostanlar
Village
Bostanlar is a village in the Amasra District, Bartın Province, Turkey. Its population is 137. Bostanlar is situated 4 km south of Amasra.
Amasra
- Category: locality
- Location: Bartın Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.7489° or 41° 44′ 56″ northLongitude
32.3867° or 32° 23′ 12″ eastPopulation
6,680Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)Open location code
8GHJP9XP+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 27004846OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
752016Wikidata ID
Q455458
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Amasra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أماصرة”
- Asturian: “Amasra”
- Azerbaijani: “Amasra”
- Catalan: “Amasra”
- Catalan: “Amastris”
- Cebuano: “Amasra”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەماسرە”
- Chechen: “Амасра”
- Chinese: “Amasra”
- Chinese: “阿玛斯拉”
- Chinese: “阿瑪斯拉”
- Chinese: “阿马斯拉”
- Dimli (individual language): “Amasra”
- Dutch: “Amasra (stad)”
- Dutch: “Amasra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اماصره”
- Esperanto: “Amasra”
- French: “Amasra”
- German: “Amasra”
- Greek: “Αμάσρα”
- Greek: “Άμαστρις”
- Hebrew: “אמסרה”
- Indonesian: “Amasra”
- Irish: “Amasra”
- Italian: “Amasra”
- Italian: “Amastri”
- Italian: “Cromna”
- Japanese: “アマスラ”
- Malay: “Amasra”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amasra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amasra”
- Norwegian: “Amasra”
- Persian: “آماسرا”
- Persian: “اماسرا”
- Polish: “Amasra”
- Russian: “Амасра”
- Russian: “Амастрида”
- Serbian: “Амасра”
- Slovenian: “Amasra”
- South Azerbaijani: “آماسرا”
- Spanish: “Amasra İlçesi”
- Spanish: “Amasra”
- Spanish: “Amastri”
- Spanish: “Cromna”
- Spanish: “Sésamo”
- Swahili: “Amasra”
- Tatar: “Амасра”
- Turkish: “Amasra, Bartın”
- Turkish: “Amasra”
- Turkish: “Amastris”
- Turkish: “Sesamos”
- Ukrainian: “Амастрида (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Амастрида”
- Ukrainian: “Амастріда”
- Urdu: “اماسرا”
- Uzbek: “Amasra”
- Vietnamese: “Amasra”
- Western Mari: “Амасра”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع اماسرہ”
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