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Amasya Library

Behind every sentence on this site there is a book, a thesis or an article. Here we have arranged the works about Amasya on shelves: from the city's history to its architecture, from its legends to its table. We give not the works themselves but their bibliographic entries, in Turkish as published; with an entry you can find each work in a library.

294 works · 16 shelves

History

City history: Amasya as a whole

61 works

Works that tell the whole story of Amasya. The shelf to start with.

Antiquity: Pontus and Rome

13 works

Danishmendids, Seljuks and Beyliks

6 works

Ottoman: the city of princes

19 works

The National Struggle and the Republic

26 works

The city and its buildings

Architecture and urban fabric

31 works

Religious life, tombs and dervish lodges

12 works

Cultural heritage and conservation

24 works

People and daily life

Social history and daily life

14 works

Travellers and memoirs

6 works

Folk culture and legends

12 works

Health and the history of medicine

6 works

Music

19 works

Gastronomy and cuisine

15 works

Nature

Flora: plant life

15 works

Fauna: animal life

15 works

How to find a work

The author and the title in the entry are the keys to your search.

📚 BooksSearch by author or title in the catalogues of the National Library of Turkey and of university libraries.
🎓 ThesesSearch by title or author at the National Thesis Centre of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK); access depends on the author's choice.
📰 ArticlesThe journal title, volume and year in the entry are enough to find an article; most journals publish their issues on their own websites.