Amasya has traces in Doğantepe Höyük that go as far back as to the latter period of the Late Neolithic Age and, as Şevket Dönmez notes in his article, "Amasya is one of the rare Anatolian cities to have kept its name (Amasea, Amaseia, Amasseia, Amaseia Hadriane, Amaseia Severiane Antoniane, Amaseia Severeia Alexandreia) almost intact from time immemorial. Amasya is on the Yeşilırmak River that in Hittite texts is named 'Kummeşmaha' and in the classical era was called 'Iris'. The Yeşilirmak flows ...