Ecumenical Genocide Memorial (Berlin): Commemorative Plate for Kütahya (Gr: Kotyaion; Koutina) Kütahya City Kütahya (ancient Gr: Κοτυάειον Kotiaeion or Κοτύαιον – Kotiaion; Kotyaion; Ketaia; Ar: Kutina; Koutina), a city in the West of Asia Minor, lying on the banks of the Porsuk River, 969 meters above sea level, at the foot of Yellice Mountain (previously Acemdağı), looks back on five thousand years of history. The region has large areas of gentle slopes with agricultural land and the town that is overlooked by a fortress. Emperor Justinian I is believed to have first ordered the construction of the old city’s citadel and its [...]
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Mutesarriflik (sancak) Kütahya / Κοτυάειον – Kotyaion
Toponym Kütahya (ancient Gr: Κοτυάειον Kotyaion, Kotiaeion or Κοτύαιον Kotiaion, Latin: Cotyaeium, Cotyaeum and Cotyaium; also: Kutina, Ketaia, Kyotahya); meaning “the City of the (god) Kotys”, the Greek place-name goes back to native Anatolian, perhaps the Phrygian language. Phrygia Phrygia is an ancient region in central Asia Minor, mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible primarily from the travels of the Apostle Paul. The Phrygians, who settled here c.1200 B.C., came from the Balkans and spoke an Indo-European language, apparently similar to Greek, which was used until the 6th century B.C. and written with Greek letters. It shows no similarity with other [...]
Kaza Kandere
A total of more than 3,500 Armenians was living in this kaza on the eve of WW1. They were deported down the Konya-Bozanti (Tr: Pozantı) route in August 1915 under the supervision of the kaymakam of Kandere, Kamil Bey, who held his post from 9 January 1913 to 10 March 1917.[1] Situated on the Black Sea coast, there were two clusters of Armenian villages on each sides of the Sakarya River in 1914. One, two hours south of Incirli, comprised four rural centers, founded in the mid-nineteenth century by Armenians of Hamshen (Tr: Hemşin): Açambaşi was inhabited by 42 islamized ‘Armenian [...]
Kaza Geyve
In 1914, seven villages were either exclusively or partially inhabited by Armenians. The towns of Geyve and Eçme, on the banks of the Sakarya River, were inhabited by 2,168 ‘Armenian speaking Greeks,’ or Greek Orthodox Armenians whose ancestors had come from Akn. The village of Kıncılar, on the opposite bank of the river, facing Eçme, was inhabited by 2,265 Armenians, whose roots were also in Akn. On the south, on both sides of the railroad, were the villages of Kurdbelen, on the left bank of the river, and Gökgöz, on the right bank, with a total population of 3,923. The last [...]
Kaza Adapazarı
County and Town Adapazarı (Gr: Sangaria) Location and Toponym In late antiquity, the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian (527-565) had a stone bridge built at the strategically important Sangarios River (Gr: Σαγγάριος, Trk.: Sakarya) crossing at today’s Adapazarı, after the strong current had repeatedly swept away the pontoon bridge. Sometime after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, the settlement was renamed Ada (Island), as it lay between two sides of the Sakarya River. At on time, Adapazarı was also known as Garlic Island (Sarımsak Adası), presumably because of the large quantities of garlic grown there. The construction of the Anatolian Railway, [...]