Amasya

Amasya

Amasya ranks 2,440th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Enschede, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and La Flèche. Memorable people born in Amasya include Selim I, Strabo, and Murad II. Memorable people who died in Amasya include Strabo, Theodore of Amasea, and Mithridates I of Pontus. Amasya has been the birth place of many politicians, and geographers and the death place of many geographers, and religious figures. Amasya is located in Türkiye.

Amasya is a city in northern Turkey, in the Black Sea Region. It was called Amaseia or Amasia in antiquity. It is the seat of Amasya Province and Amasya District. Its population is 114,921 (2021). Amasya stands in the mountains above the Black Sea (Karadeniz) coast, set apart from the rest of Anatolia in a narrow valley along the banks of the Yeşilırmak River. Although near the Black Sea, this area is high above the coast and has an inland climate, well-suited to growing apples, for which Amasya province, one of the provinces in north-central Anatolia Turkey, is famed. It was the home of the geographer Strabo and the birthplace of the 15th century Armenian scholar and physician Amirdovlat Amasiatsi. Located in a narrow cleft of the Yeşilırmak (Iris) river, it has a history of 7,500 years with many traces still evident today. Read more on Wikipedia