My Hometown Amasya (2. draft/ definition essay)

Amasya, set up on the foots of Harsena Mountain, is a small city which belongs to the Middle Black Sea Region. It’s a city of more than a seven thousand-year history throughout which it became capital for various kingdoms. Amasya is a significant city where scientists,artists, poets and many shahzadas were brought up. In the middle of the city, Yeşilırmak River flows.

Amasya is really a small city but contrary to its smallness, it has so many historical places and natural beauties to see. I can easily say that only by looking at your environment randomly, you can most probably come across a historical building, tower, cave, mosque, medresseh etc. Apart from being famous for its apples, cherries, peaches, and okra, Amasya easily attracts visitors’ attention to its historical houses built along Yeşilırmak. For instance, one of these historical houses is Mansion of Hazeranlar. It’s one of the most representative of the architecture of Ottoman reign. This excellent mansion was built in 1872 in the name of Miss Hazeran, the sister of Sir Hasan Talat, who was an official heading the provincial treasury of Ottomans at that time.Today, as you can guess, this mansion has been turned into a museum which is visited by many tourists every summer.

Surronded by rocky mountains, Amasya is well known for its King Stone Tombs. These tombs are all five in number and they are said to be carved by ancient people on the mountains. As they are very attractive and huge on the surface of the mountains, they immediately call your attention much more easily than any other beauties or historical buildings. In the city centre, you can see four of these tombs. However, the fifth tomb, the most completed and ornamented one, is on the road to Ziyaret Village. On the walls of this fifth tomb, you can surprisingly see the figures of Jesus the Christ and Virgin Mary.

When you visit Amasya, one of the places that you have exactly to see is the complex buildings adjacent to Sultan Bayezid Mosque. It was built in 1485 in the name of Sultan Bayezid. This complex of buildings consists of a mosque, medresseh, turbe, and fontain. It has been built in a L-shaped plan. So it’s said that it’s one of the most impressive examples of mosque architecture of the Ottomans. Amasya is such a magnificient city that you can see both the King Stone Tombs and the complex buildings adjacent to Sultan Bayezid Mosque at the same time. If you stand on the road in the street, your face turned to Amasya Clock Tower, the King Stone Tombs will be on your left and Sultan Bayezid Mosque will be on your right. And of course, Yeşilırmak River flaws sliently in its splendour next to the road you stand on.

In Amasya there are exactly many historical places other than these I have mentioned. As examples I can say Ferhat’s water canal, which he has dug for Şirin, Medresseh of great Agha, Mosque of Minaret with Spiral, Amasya Tower, Amasya Clock Tower, Amasya Museum etc.. As you see this small city is interconnected with its big history. I think if anybody has a chance to travel to the Middle Black Sea Region, s/he deliberately has to visit my hometown so that his/her eyes can witness what a living history isJ.