Bartın Province

More than 600 Russian tourists came to the northern province of Bartın's Amasra district with the Astoria Grande cruise ship, which approached the port for the 17th time, increasing the number of Russians visiting the district by cruise over 17,000 in the last 10 months.

Locals in the Black Sea province of Karabük have said, a building that became known nationwide for leaning after the floods on June 27, had leaned once before more than two decades ago and was erected with the help of a lifting jack.

"A building owned by two brothers in the Tır village of the Yenice district leaned after the June floods," İHA News Agency reported on July 4.

Over 1 million people visited Amasra, a small town in the Black Sea province of Bartın, over the first eight months of this year, the local mayor has said. 

A 3,000-year-old sarcophagus in the northern province of Bartın's Amasra district from ancient Roman times has been spray painted with the Turkish name "Gülay" and the identity of the vandal remains unknown, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on July 16.

Turkish children's charity MİKA-DER (The Tiny Hearts Foundation) has opened a housing complex in the Black Sea province of Bartın. The place, built with the contributions of the Bartın Governor's Office, artists and businesspeople, will accommodate up to 40 boys aged between 13 and 18.

Turkey's Council of State has canceled an environmental clearance for a power plant planned to be built in the Black Sea province of Bartın's Amasra district.

Pieces of tombs and columns, believed to date back to the Roman era, have washed up on the shores of the Amasra district in the northern province of Bartın following waves caused by a storm.

Nearly 15,000 people have visited the Amasra Museum, which was reopened three months ago after a three-year restoration process in the northern province of Bartın's Amasra district. The museum displays artifacts that have been unearthed by coincidence during construction works or excavations for different purposes. 

The Amasra Museum, which has opened after a three-year restoration work with a cost of 3 million Turkish Liras, has become an international application center for archaeologists, engineers, architects and academics and an education center providing history and archaeology education for students.

The Amasra Museum, home to more than 3,000 archaeological and ethnographical artifacts from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Genoese, Seljuk and Ottoman periods, reveals the northern province of Bartın's 5,000-year-old history. 

The Amasra district, where the museum is located, bears the name of Persian queen Amastris, who ruled the city after the Lydians.