The city boasts a – heavily canalized – river that must look impressive in some seasons, but in late summer had run dry. Along it stand some fine old houses, I hope the authorities will keep them and not have new apartment buildings built along it.

The Tokat clock tower was build in 1901, in a plain neoclassical European oriented style.
It has four floors and is 33 m high. On the upper floor, four clocks show the time in alle directions.
This is one of many clock towers that were built throughout the Ottoman Empire as a result of the decree which was sent to the provincial governors to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Sultan Abdülhamid II's ascension to the Ottoman throne.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: ‘Türkye Tarihi Yerler Kılavuzu’ – M.Orhan Bayrak, Inkılâp Kitabevi, Istanbul, 1994.

In the distance the mosque on the pictures before, and the saat kulesi or clock tower any city worth its salt acquired in the nineteenth century.