(2002 est. pop. 78,000). Amasya, known historically as Amaseia, is the capital city of the province of Amasya (population 346,191) in Turkey. The city straddles the Yesilirmak River in central Anatolia. The city was under the rule of nine different...

The Yesilirmak (from Turkish Yesil—green; known in antiquity as the Iris), a river in Turkey, has a course of approximately 418 kilometers. The area of its basin is around 20,000 square kilometers. The river rises in the mountains of northeast...

Amasya (Greek: Ἀμάσεια, the Amaseia of antiquity, or Αμάσεια Amáseia) is the administrative district of Amasya Province in northern Turkey. It covers an area of 1730 km², and the population is 133,000, of which 74,000 live in the city...

STANLEY IRELAND with HELEN IRELAND. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine coins in the museum at Amasya (ancient Amaseia), Turkey (ed. Richard Ashton; Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 33, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 27). viii+184 pages, I map, 60 plates. 2000. London:...

Turkey is battling the largest recorded outbreak of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, which has killed at least 20 people this year, and experts said Tuesday more cases of the Ebola-like disease are inevitable in coming months. The fever is primarily an...