Amasya

Agzikarahan Ahlat Akhtamar Island Amasya Ani Ankara Antioch Cappadocia Diyarbakir Dogubayazit Ephesus Harran Hittite cites Konya Mount Nemrut Nomads People Road to Ankara Sumela Troy Urfa

Amasya

 

town square

statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,  (1881-1938)
founder of modern Turkey

 

houses on the river, below the old royal burial tombs

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the Houses

 

on the river Iris

 

typical interior, of house, now a museum

 

water wheel on the river

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the Tombs

 

royal tombs carved into citadel hill

 

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view of the city from the tombs

 

the mosque

 

melons for sale

 

in waiting

 

on the move

 

selling the brooms he made

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photo taken shortly after an earthquake in Erzincan (1992)

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Agzikarahan Ahlat Akhtamar Island Amasya Ani Ankara Antioch Cappadocia Diyarbakir Dogubayazit Ephesus Harran Hittite cites Konya Mount Nemrut Nomads People Road to Ankara Sumela Troy Urfa

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