Ecumenical Genocide Memorial (Berlin): Commemorative Plate for Hadjin / Hacin Hadjin (now Saimbeyli), a town in historic Upper Cilicia, is located in the central Tauros Mountain range on a triangular hill at an altitude of 1140 meters above sea level, on the right bank of the Saros River. Located on the overland road from Cilicia to Cappadocia, the town of Hadjin was fortified since ancient times. The fortress of Hadjin may be the medieval Badimon or perhaps the castle of Berdus, which appears on the Coronation List of King Levon I of Cilician Armenia in A.D. 1198/99. This fortress, which guards [...]
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Kaza Feke / Վահկա – Vahka / Vahga
Feke Town, 2016 (photographed by Zeynel Cebesi, source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feke#/media/Datei:Feke,_Adana_01.jpg) In the agricultural kaza of Feke where a large number of agricultural crops were produced, forestry and mining were further means of existence. Feke / Vahka: Armenian orphans after the 1909 Adana Massacres (photographed in 1912) Armenian Population According to the census of the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Constantinople there lived 4,948 Armenians in eight localities of the kaza on the eve of the First World War, maintaining seven churches, Personal card of Edith Cold (1879-1980), employee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; worked in Hadjin, Maras and Constantinople (source: http://www.dlir.org/archive/orc-exhibit/items/show/collection/8/id/11986) one monastery and [...]
Sancak Kozan / Սիս – Sis
Fortress and city of Sis (Langlois, Victor: Voyage dans la Cilicie et dans les montagnes de Taurus exécutés pendant les années 1852-1853. Paris 1861; Archives. Center for information and documentation on Armenia / IDZA, Berlin) Toponym From the 17th to the 19th century, the sancak bore the name of its capital, Sis. The town of Sis became Kozan during the overlordship of the Kozanoğulları, a Kurdish clan, between 1700 and 1866. It is believed that the toponym Kozan is Kurdish (for ‘barns’?). Kozan is the settlement established by the Kozanlu/Kozanoğlu tribe in the north of Sis. Today it includes Sis.[1] Administration During the period of [...]
Sancak Içil / İçel
Silifke / Seleukeia (Langlois, Victor: Langlois, Victor: Voyage dans la Cilicie et dans les montagnes de Taurus exécutés pendant les années 1852-1853. Paris 1861; Archives. Center for information and documentation on Armenia / IDZA, Berlin) Toponym Situated in the very southwest of Cilicia, the sancak of İçil / İçel roughly corresponded to Cilicia Trachaea of the antiquity. İçil literally means ‘inner territory’. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea and the Tauros (Trk.: Toros) Mountains, which are mostly impassable (except for the Sertavul Pass), this isolation may be the reason why the name was first documented in the 12th century by Seljukid Turks. They used [...]
Kaza Antep / عينتاب – ʿAyintāb – Ayntab / عنتاب – ʿAntāb / Այնթապ – Ayntap
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Antep / Ayntap Population Ayntab and its environs had a huge Armenian population since the tenth century. In the 14th century massive immigration started from different regions of Armenia, in particular from Mush, Malatya, Maraş, Birecik, Urfa, Adıyaman, and Besni (Armenian: Բեհեսնի – Behesni). According to the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Constantinople, in 1914 there lived 36,448 Armenians in three localities of the Ottoman kaza of Antep, maintaining eight churches and 25 schools with an enrolment of 5,000 pupils.[1] Former Surb Petros (Bedros) Church, 18/19 century (source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaziantep#/media/Datei:Aziz_Bedros_Ermeni_kilisesi-Gaziantep_-_panoramio.jpg) City of Antep / عينتاب – ʿAyintāb / Aintab / [...]