Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Konya Map of the Province of Konya (Vital Cuinet, 1890; https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/CUINET(1890)_1.846_Vilayet_of_Konya.jpg/1200px-CUINET(1890)_1.846_Vilayet_of_Konya.jpg) The Ottoman province of Konya included the whole, or parts of, the ancient regions of Pamphylia, Pisidia, Phrygia, Lycaonia, Cilicia and Cappadocia. Konya province, the largest in Turkey, has important mineral resources. Toponym Under the ancient Greek name of Iconion (Latinized: Iconium), Konya is mentioned as one of the cities of ancient Phrygia in classical antiquity and during the medieval period. Ikónion is the Hellenization of an older Luwian name Ikkuwaniya. Some explain the name Ikónion as a derivation from εἰκών (icon), as an ancient Greek legend [...]
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Kaza Adana / Ἄδανα / Ադանա
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative plate for Adana Toponym In Homer‘s Illiad, the name of the city is mentioned as Adana. For a short while during the Hellenistic era, the city was known as Ἀντιόχεια τῆς Κιλικίας (Antiocheia in Cilicia) and as Ἀντιόχεια ἡ πρὸς Σάρον (Antiocheia on Sarus). On some cuneiforms, the city name was mentioned as Quwê, and as Coa in some other sources which could be the place Solomon had obtained his horses as per Bible (I Kings 10:28; II Chronicles 1:16). Under Armenian rule, the city was known as Ատանա (Atana) or Ադանա (Adana). An ancient Greco-Roman legend mentions that [...]
Sancak Adana / Ἄδανα / Ադանա
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative plate for Adana Administration The Ottoman Adana sancak emerged in 1608, when the Ramadanid rule over the Plain of Cilicia ended with the conquest of the Ottoman Sultan Selim I. As part of the Adana Vilayet, the Adana sancak comprised the three kazas of Adana (seat of government), Hamidiye, and Karaisali. Armenian Population According to the census of the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Constantinople, there lived 27,900 Armenians in six localities of the Adana sancak on the eve of the First World War, maintaining four churches and 25 schools with an enrolment of 2,755 students.[1] [...]
Kaza Payas / Παίας – Paías / Բայաս – Bayas
Dörtyol – Դորթյոլ / Չորք-Մարզպան(ք) – Chorkk’ Marzpan(k’) / Չորք-Մարզվան(ք) – Chork’-Marsvan(k’) Located at the foot of the Amanos Mountains, the small town of Dörtyol is at the edge of the Cilician (Çukurova) Plain. Being near the coast, the climate is humid, and the countryside is fairly green and fertile. Therefore, alongside oil handling, the economic activities of the area include forestry, cotton, and the cultivation of citrus fruits, especially a local variety of tangerines. Until 1915, it was an Armenian town surrounded by Turkish villages. Toponym The Turkish placename Dörtyol means literally ‘four roads’, i. e. ‘crossroads’. Its Armenian name was [...]
Sancak Cebelibereket
Toponym The original name of the administrative unit seems to have been Gavurdağı (“Mountain of the Infidels”). It was renamed Cebel-ı Bereket (Bereket Mountain; ‘Mountain of Blessing’) by government order before 1890 to denote the fertility of the land.[1] The seat of government and the sancak of same name was called Cebel-ı Bereket in Ottoman time (today: Osmaniye). Administration The Ottoman sancak Cebel-ı Bereket comprised the six kazas of Payas (Ancient Gr.: Παίας- Paías, Western Armenian: Բայաս – Bayas), Hasa (also Hassa), Yarpuz, Islahiye, Bulanik and Osmaniye with the seat of the sancak since 1890. Before, the current village of Yarpuz was the seat [...]