Kozan, Adana

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox Turkey place Kozan, formerly Sis (Template:Langx), is a municipality and district of Adana Province, Turkey.[1] Its area is 1,903 km2,[2] and its population is 132,703 (2022).[3] It is Script error: No such module "convert". northeast of Adana, in the northern section of the Çukurova plain. The Kilgen River, a tributary of the Ceyhan, flows through Kozan and crosses the plain south into the Mediterranean. The Taurus Mountains rise up sharply behind the town.

Sis was the capital of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, today's Sis (ancient city), now called Kozan Kalesi, was built on a long rocky ridge in the center of the modern city.[4]

The population of the city has grown rapidly in recent years, from 15,159 in 1960, to 54,451 in 1990, to 72,463 in 2007 and to 74,521 in 2009 (census figures).

Names

The oldest known name is Sis or Siskia. Under the Roman Empire, it was for a time named Flavias or Flaviopolis.[5] The Greek version of the older name, Σίσιον Sision, came back into use in the later Byzantine period.[6] In Armenian, it is called Sis Սիս or Sissu.

Kozan (Template:Langx) was originally the name of the administrative division the town Sis was a part of. This name originates from the Qōzānoğlu dynasty of derebeys that controlled the region from 1689 to 1865.Template:Sfn

History

Middle Ages

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Panorama view of Sis (c.1855)
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Panorama view of town and fortress (c.1870)

In 704, Sis was besieged by the Arabs, but relieved by the Byzantines. The Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil took it and refortified it, but it soon returned to Byzantine hands. It was rebuilt in 1186 by Leo II, king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, one of the Rupenide dynasty who made the city the capital of his Kingdom (from 1186 until 1375). During the Crusade the catholicate returned to Sis in 1294, and remained there 150 years.[5]

In 1266 Sis, the capital of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, was captured and damaged by the Egyptian Mamluks led by Baibars. al-Said Barakah sent Qalawun to attack the city in 1277, but in 1375, Sis was taken and demolished by the Ramadanids, under the flag of the Mamluke Sultan of Egypt. The town never recovered its prosperity, not even when it passed into the power of the Ottomans in 1516.

Ecclesiastical history

Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Sis had an important place in ecclesiastical history both the Armenian Apostolic Church and as a Roman Catholic titular see. It is first mentioned in Theodoret's life of St. Simeon Stylites.

In the Middle Ages, Sis was the religious center of Christian Armenians, until the Armenians moved the seat of Catholicos back to Vagharshapat (Echmiadzin), in Armenia. Lequien (II, 899) gives the names of several bishops of Sis, before and after Gregory IX.

Even prior to the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, Sis was an episcopal see and several names of bishops and patriarchs can be found in the literature:

In 1441, Sis having fallen from its high estate, the Armenian clergy proposed to remove the see, and on the refusal of the Catholicos of the day, Gregory IX, installed a rival, namely Kirakos I Virapetsi (Kirakos of Armenia) at Echmiadzin, who, as soon as Selim I had conquered Greater ArmeniaScript error: No such module "Unsubst"., became the more widely accepted of the two by the Armenian church in the Ottoman Empire.[5]

The Catholicos of Sis (of the Holy See of Cilicia) maintained himself nevertheless, with under his jurisdiction several bishops, numerous villages and convents, Template:Citation needed span when the patriarch Nerses, declaring finally for Echmiadzin, carried the government with him.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 1885, Sis tried to declare Echmiadzin schismatic, and in 1895 its clergy took it on themselves to elect a Catholicos; but the Porte annulled the election, and only allowed it six years later upon Sis renouncing its pretensions to independence.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". That Catholicos had the right to prepare the sacred myron (oil) and to preside over a synod, but was in fact not more than a metropolitan, and regarded by many Armenians as schismatic.[5]

Ottoman period

Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In the Ottoman period, Kozan was in the sanjak of Adana, and the seat of the kaza of Kozan.[7] Ottoman archives show that Devşirme system was implemented in Kozan. However there is evidence that the locals resisted the practise. In 1564, for example, villagers from Sis came to the Ottoman capital Istanbul and kidnapped their children back.[8] From 1689 to 1865,Template:Sfn the region was under the control of Kozanoğulları, a family of feudal lords. While there are various theories about their history and origin,[9] they claimed descent from Turkmen tribes,Template:Sfn and Ahmed Cevdet Pasha wrote that they were descended from the Arık tribe of Warsaks.Template:Sfn

Modern

At the turn of the twentieth century, the town's population was 8,000, about 5,600 of which were Armenians.[10] They were all deported during the course of the Armenian genocide. Kozan was occupied by France between March 8, 1919 - June 2, 1920 during the Turkish War of Independence. After Turkey was declared a republic, Kozan was a province, compromising the districts of Kozan, Kadirli, Feke and Saimbeyli between 1923 and 1926.

Composition

There are 103 neighbourhoods in Kozan District:[11]

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Kozan today

Today Kozan is a city surrounded by vineyards, gardens and groves of cypress, sycamore fig, orange and lemon trees. In summer the great heat (40 plus degrees Celsius or 104 plus degrees Fahrenheit) compels the inhabitants to desert Kozan, retreating to cool off in the wooded higher ground.

Climate

Kozan has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). Kozan has mild, rainy winters and very hot, muggy and dry summers. The highest recorded temperature was on 13 August 2023 at Script error: No such module "convert"..Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

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Notable natives

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Things to see

Today ruins of churches, convents, castles and palaces may be seen on all sides. The lofty castle and the monastery and church built by Leo II, and containing the coronation chair of the kings of Cilician Armenia,[5] were still noteworthy up until the Armenian genocide.

Gallery

See also

  • Kozan Dam on the Kilgen River, Script error: No such module "convert". north of Kozan

Notes

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  1. ↑ Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi Template:Webarchive, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
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  6. ↑ William Mitchell Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor, p. 385
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  10. ↑ Kévorkian, Raymond H. and Paul B. Paboudjian, Les Arméniens dans l’Empire Ottoman à la veille du génocide. Paris: Editions d’art et d’histoire, 1992, p. 292.
  11. ↑ Mahalle Template:Webarchive, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.

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References

Bibliography

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External links

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