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In 1075, ending 700 years of Byzantine rule, Amasya was conquered by the [[Oghuz Turks|Turkmen]] [[Danishmends|Danishmend]] emirs.<ref name="EI2">{{EI2 | last = Taeschner | first = Fr. | authorlink = | title = Amasya | volume = 1 | pages = 431–432 | doi =10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_0583 }}</ref> It served as their capital until the annexation of the Danishmendid dominions by the [[Sultanate of Rum|Seljuk]] ruler [[Kilij Arslan II]].<ref name="EI2"/> When he died, his realm was divided among his sons, and Amasya passed to [[Nizam ad-Din Arghun Shah]]. His rule was brief, as he lost it to his brother [[Rukn ad-Din Suleiman Shah]], who subsequently became Sultan.<ref name="EI2"/> During the 13th century the city passed under the control of the [[Mongol Empire|Mongol]] [[Ilkhanate]], and was ruled by Mongol governors, except for a brief rule by [[Taj ad-Din Altintash]], son of the last Seljuk sultan, [[Mesud II]].<ref name="EI2"/>
Under the Seljuks and the Ilkhan, the city became a centre of Islamic culture and produced some notable individuals such as [[Yaqut al-Musta'simi]] (1221–1298) calligrapher and secretary of the last Abbasid caliph who was a [[Greeks|Greek]] native of Amasya.<ref name="Houtsma 1987">{{cite book |title=E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936, Volume 1 |last= Houtsma |first= M. Th |year=1987 |publisher= BRILL|isbn=9789004082656 |quote= YAKUT al-MUSTA'SIMI, Djamal al-DIn Auu 'l-Madjd ... some say he was a Greek from Amasia; he was probably carried off on a razzia while still very young. He was a eunuch. |page=1154 }}</ref> Schools, mosques, tombs and other architecture of this period still remain.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}
 
In 1341, the emir [[Habiloghlu]] occupied the city, before it came under the rule of the [[Eretnid]] emirate. [[Shadgeldi|Hadji Shadgeldi Pasha]] took Amasya from the Eretnids under Ali Bey, and successfully fended off the claims of [[Kadi Burhan al-Din]], who had supplanted the Eretnids.<ref name="EI2"/> Shadgeldi was succeeded by his son Ahmed, who managed to retain his autonomy for a while, with Ottoman assistance; but in 1391/92, the [[Battle of Kırkdilim|mounting pressure]] forced him to cede the city to the Ottoman sultan [[Bayezid I]], who installed his son, the future [[Mehmed I]], as its governor.<ref name="EI2"/><ref>{{cite book | last = Kastritsis | first = Dimitris | title = The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of 1402-13 | publisher = BRILL | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-90-04-15836-8 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=u_evCQAAQBAJ | page=65}}</ref>