Merzifon

•Merzifon : where Anatolia College started . Had Roman remains

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•Ladik (Laodikeia Pontica)

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•Vezirkopru  (Nea Klavdiopolis)

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•Iskilip  ( from Asklipios ?) area of salt springs, castle on top of mountain with houses inside

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•Corum – Hittite with thermal springs (Ibora, Klavdiopolis)

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•Yosgat – (Tavium)

Divrigi (Tephrike)

•e richest iron deposits in the Near East

•Old town has south Pontic Old Ottoman timber houses

•In the 9th cent. became a stronghold of the Paulicians, a Christian sect who, fleeing from Byzantine persecution, sought refuge under the protection of the Abbasid emirs of Malatya

•Venerated teachings of St. Paul and rejecting the Eucharist and the cross.

•In 872 the Byzantines occupied the town

•Mongols, Ottomans

•Kemaliye : formerly Egin, Armenian name

•Erzurum ( Theodosiopolis)   high plateau 1950 m

•Well-preserved Byzantine city walls

•Monastery of St. John the Baptist, 963 AD with colourful frescoes

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•Elazig ( Kharput) Armenian town near the Euphrates river

•Mart Maryam church Syriac Orthodox, the first church built 179 AD

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•Erzincan : long tradition in metal works

•Near Urartian site of Altintepe: bronze objects from here

•Thermal springs (sour water)

•Caves

•Bayburt: Armenian name for fort

•On Silk road, Marco Polo passed. Cataclesme Underground City

•From 100 BC, Byzantines repaired castle which started 2000 BC

•Two caves : Cimagil Magarasi & Helva Koyu Buz Magarasi

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•Niksar (Neocaesareia). Birthplace of St. Gregory o Thavmatourgos

•Also called Caberia, Diospolis, Subset