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21-JUN-2011

Amasya june 2011 7214.jpg

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On the picture (from left to right):
A few norias (from Syriac: ܢܥܘܪܐ, nā‘urā / = vertical wheel for lifting water out of a river for the purpose of irrigation) ; the Yıldız Hamamı and the Hatuniye mosque, both built in 1510; the Hazeranlar Konağı, a large 19th century mansion that is now an ethnographical museum.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: ‘Türkye Tarihi Yerler Kılavuzu’ – M.Orhan Bayrak, Inkılâp Kitabevi, Istanbul, 1994 & Wikipedia.

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