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Amasra

Also known as Amastris

Amasra is a small port town on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, in Bartın Province. The ancient Amastris, it was a Byzantine port before Genoese merchants made it one of their trading stations in the 13th and 14th centuries, building walls whose remains survive. The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II took it in 1460.

Amasra
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Genoese Amasra

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Amasra. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/amasra
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