Amasya
Amasya is a city in the Central Karadeniz region of Turkey, with a population of 116,000 in 2023. It's 333 km northeast of Ankara in the gorge of the River Yeşilırmak and has a well-preserved old town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 115,000 residents
- Description: central district and city in Amasya Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Amaseia”, “Amasiyah”, and “Amasya City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amasya Castle and Bayezid II Mosque.
Amasya Castle
Photo: Zcebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Amasya Castle, a.k.a. Harşene Castle, is a fortress located in Amasya, northern Turkey. The castle is located north of Amasya and the river Yeşilırmak on the steep rocks of Mount Harşena.
Bayezid II Mosque
Mosque
Photo: MichaelSchoenitzer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bayezid II Mosque is a historical 15th century Mosque in Amasya, Turkey. The mosque was built in 1486 by order of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II, it is the largest Külliye of the city.
Amasya railway station
Railway station
Amasya station on the Turkish rail network was built in 1927, near the Yeşilırmak River in the town of Amasya. It is on the Samsun-Kalın railway, which connects the Black Sea city of Samsun to the central Anatolian city of Sivas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ermiş and Yuvacık.
Ermiş
Village
Ermiş is a village in the Amasya District, Amasya Province, Turkey. Its population is 371.
Yuvacık
Village
Photo: İstemikaan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yuvacık is a village in the Amasya District, Amasya Province, Turkey. Its population is 45.
Amasya
- Categories: big city, district of Turkey, municipality, and locality
- Location: Amasya, Amasya Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.6503° or 40° 39′ 1″ northLongitude
35.8329° or 35° 49′ 59″ eastPopulation
115,000Elevation
402 metres (1,319 feet)IATA airport code
MZHUnited Nations Location Code
TR AMYOpen location code
8GGQMR2M+45OpenStreetMap ID
node 26482974OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
752015Wikidata ID
Q170532
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Amasya” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Amasia”
- Albanian: “Amasya”
- Arabic: “أماسية”
- Arabic: “أَمَاسِيَةُ”
- Arabic: “أماصيا”
- Armenian: “Ամասիա”
- Asturian: “Amasya (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Amasya”
- Azerbaijani: “Amasya”
- Basque: “Amasya”
- Belarusian: “Амасья”
- Bengali: “আমাশিয়া”
- Breton: “Amasya”
- Bulgarian: “Амазия”
- Bulgarian: “Амасия”
- Catalan: “Amasia”
- Catalan: “Amàsia”
- Catalan: “Amasiya”
- Catalan: “Amasya”
- Cebuano: “Amasya (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Amasya”
- Central Kurdish: “ئاماسیا”
- Chechen: “Амаси”
- Chinese: “Amasya”
- Chinese: “阿馬西亞”
- Chinese: “阿马西亚”
- Crimean Tatar: “Amasya”
- Czech: “Amasya”
- Danish: “Amasya”
- Dimli (individual language): “Amasya”
- Dutch: “Amasya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اماسيه”
- Esperanto: “Amasio”
- Esperanto: “Amasya”
- Estonian: “Amasya ringkond”
- Finnish: “Amasya”
- French: “Amasée”
- French: “Amasya”
- Gagauz: “Amasya”
- Galician: “Amasia”
- Georgian: “ამასია”
- German: “Amaseia”
- German: “Amasya”
- Gilaki: “آماسيه”
- Greek: “Αμάσεια”
- Gujarati: “અમાસ્યા”
- Hebrew: “אמסיה”
- Hindi: “अमास्या”
- Hungarian: “Amasya”
- Indonesian: “Amasya”
- Irish: “Amasya”
- Italian: “Amasea”
- Italian: “Amaseia”
- Italian: “Amasya”
- Italian: “Distretto di Amasya”
- Japanese: “アマスィヤ”
- Japanese: “アマスヤ”
- Kannada: “ಅಮಸ್ಯ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Amasya”
- Kinyarwanda: “Akarere k’Amasya”
- Kinyarwanda: “Amasya”
- Korean: “아마시아”
- Kurdish: “Amasya”
- Kurdish: “ئاماسیا”
- Lak: “Амасья”
- Latin: “Amasea”
- Latvian: “Amasija”
- Latvian: “Amasja”
- Lithuanian: “Amasija”
- Macedonian: “Амасија”
- Malay: “Amasya”
- Maltese: “Amaseia”
- Maltese: “Amasya”
- Marathi: “अमेजिया”
- Mazanderani: “آماسیه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amasya”
- Minangkabau: “Amasya”
- Moksha: “Амасья”
- Nauru: “Amasya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amasya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amasya”
- Norwegian: “Amasya”
- Ossetian: “Амасья”
- Panjabi: “ਅਮਾਸਿਆ”
- Persian: “آماسیه”
- Persian: “اماسیه”
- Polish: “Amasya”
- Polish: “Amazja”
- Pontic: “Αμάσεια”
- Portuguese: “Amasea”
- Portuguese: “Amaseia”
- Portuguese: “Amasia”
- Portuguese: “Amásia”
- Portuguese: “Amássia”
- Portuguese: “Amasya”
- Romanian: “Amasya”
- Russian: “Амасья”
- Scots: “Amasya”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Amasya”
- Serbian: “Амасија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amasija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amasya”
- Silesian: “Amasya”
- Sinhala: “අමස්යා”
- Slovak: “Amasya”
- Slovenian: “Amasya”
- Somali: “Amaasiya”
- South Azerbaijani: “آماسیا”
- Spanish: “Amaseia”
- Spanish: “Amasya”
- Swahili: “Amasya”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Amasya”
- Swedish: “Amasea”
- Swedish: “Amaseia”
- Swedish: “Amasia”
- Swedish: “Amasya”
- Swedish: “Αμασεια”
- Swedish: “Αμάσεια”
- Tajik: “Амася”
- Tajik: “Амосия”
- Talysh: “Amasya”
- Tamil: “அமாஸ்ய”
- Tatar: “Амасия”
- Tatar: “Амасья”
- Telugu: “అమస్య”
- Thai: “อามัสยา”
- Turkish: “Amaseia”
- Turkish: “Amasya Merkez”
- Turkish: “Amasya”
- Udmurt: “Амасья”
- Ukrainian: “Амасья”
- Urdu: “اماسیا”
- Uzbek: “Amasya tumani”
- Venetian: “Amasya”
- Vietnamese: “Amasya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amasya”
- Western Armenian: “Ամասիա”
- Western Mari: “Амасья”
- Western Panjabi: “اماسیا”
- Wu Chinese: “阿马西亚”
- Yue Chinese: “阿馬西亞”
- “Amasya”
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