Tokat

Tokat is the capital city of Tokat Province of Turkey in the mid-Black Sea locale of Anatolia. It is situated at the conversion of the Tokat River with the Yesilırmak. In the 2009 evaluation, the city of Tokat had a populace of 129,879. The city was set up in the Hittite period. Amid the season of King Mithradates VI of Pontus, it was one of his numerous fortifications in Asia Minor. Known as Evdokia, ecclesiastically it was later fused into the western piece of the Byzantine Greek Empire of Trebizond.

After the Battle of Manzikert the town, as the greater part of Asia Minor, went under the control of the Seljuk Turks. After the demise of Sultan Suleiman ibn Qutulmish in 1086, the Emir Danishmend Gazi took control of the zone, working from his capacity base in the town of Sivas. It would be numerous decades prior to the Seljuks re-took control of that area, in the rule of Kilij Arslan II. After the Battle of Kose Dag, Seljuk hold over the district was lost, and nearby Emirs, for example, the Eretna took control until the ascent of the Ottomans.