Tokat Tourist Map With Attractions Visiting Places

Tokat formerly Byzantine period known as the coma to, Kah-C with Iran era name, the Seljuk Empire during the narrow-Nusrat, Mongol period known with Sobari name the provinces in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

Etymology
Ieroklis Sinekdimos, a Byzantine geographer, reported that there was a city called Eudokia in Cappadocia in the 6th century AD. Evliya Çelebi explained the name of the city in Turkish etymology because of the abundance of horses for sat-sat, Tok-at, the Ottoman historian İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı explained toh-kat, which means sur fortified city Öz, and Özhan Öztürk in his Pontus study meant ülke country, shatrapism Av in Avesta. and firstly in the 6th century BC during the Achaemenid Empire in Cappadocia, the word Dah Dahyu bozul in the Greek mouth of the corrupted form of the word D Dokeia iddia claimed that the word was converted into Tokat over time.

History

Tokat, which was believed to have been founded by the Togayites in the early ages, was ruled by the Hittites, Assyrians, Hurrians and Cimmerians, and then under the rule of Persians, Macedonians of Alexander the Great, Kingdom of Capodocia and the Kingdom of Pontus, which gave the name "Comana Pontica". It came under the rule of Romans and Byzantine Empire in 65 BC. Tokat Castle, which has a critical importance in the Byzantine-Sassanid and Byzantine-Arab wars, is located on 750 meters high Hisartepe in the southwest of the city, which was taken over by the management of Danişmedliler (1071) after the victory of Malazgirt (1071) and then by the Anatolian Seljuks (1150). The oldest traces of Tokat Castle belong to the 5th or 6th century and it is known that the castle existed in these years.