PRESENTATION

With a documented history of 7500 years, Amasya is a typical Turkish city. This beautiful city, where you can find artefacts belonging to a time span of thousands of years, is an authentic
place with its historical buildings, cultural legacy and artistic elements that have survived to this day.
Generous waters of Yeşilırmak not only enrich the already fertile lands but also create an environment available for cultural development. Lives led along the riverside, social structure
of the city and the legacy of the surrounding region turns into a treasure in Amasya. Traces of this legacy can be seen in every aspect of life in the city from music to architecture, arts to
science and food to notion of living. This land of the Shahzadah, who has cradled and nurtured the
greatest sultans of history, has been a safe heaven all through history. With he artistic and architectural inheritance of its long history, Amasya is an important center of culture and tourism
today. Having stood out among other cities with the recent studies, aiming to exploit the touristic potential Amasya will continue its progress.
Our primary aim in this study was to provide a guide to meet the demands of the growing number of visitors coming to Amasya.
The main difficulty in the preparation of this guide was to decide which objects to include in this guide and which not. Inclusion of every item in the guide would make it too voluminous and
difficult to use. We eliminated some and compiled information about the others. The problem at this next stage was the description of the artefacts. All artefacts deserved a description that would last many pages, while we had to summarize each one to a few sentences. The space available for the photographs were limited but the high quality visual material at hand was abundant. We had difficulty choosing among these as well. Finally we came up with the guide you are holding in your hands now, although we feel unsatisfied because of what we had to leave out.
In this guide, which is intended to include the most important historical and cultural values, we made use of the information from the most reliable resources in the briefest way possible.
There might be occasional mistakes which we would be happy to correct in the coming issues.
We hope this guide to be of use for those who would like to get to know Amasya and would also like to thank everyone involved in the preparation of this guide which is prepared in both Turkish
and English.