Saimbeyli
| Saimbeyli | ||||
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 Panorama of the city |
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Adana | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 59 ' N , 36 ° 6' E | |||
| Height : | 1023 m | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 322 | |||
| Postal code : | 01740 | |||
| License plate : | 01 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 28 Mahalle | |||
| Mayor : | Mustafa Uyanık ( AKP ) | |||
| Postal address : | İslam Mah. Şehit Ufuk Çınar Cd. No: 3/202 01740 Saimbeyli / ADANA |
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| Saimbeyli County | ||||
| Residents : | 15,538 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 989 km² | |||
| Population density : | 16 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Cem Gümrükçü | |||
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Saimbeyli (formerly Հաճըն Xaçin , Hadjin in Armenian ) is a district town and administrative district in Adana Province in Turkey . Since a regional reform in 2014, the municipality (Belediye) and the district (İlçe) are congruent. The district is 989 km² and is located in the north of the province on the border with the provinces of Kayseri and Kahramanmaraş .
The city of Saimbeyli is 157 km away from the provincial capital Adana in the central Taurus Mountains at an altitude of 1,140 meters. The Göksu River flows through the district.
history
A fortification on the road from Cilicia to Cappadocia since ancient times , the place flourished when at the beginning of the 15th century a part of the Armenian nobility and subjects withdrew here from the Cilician plain. The nearby Armenian St. Jacob's Monastery, supposedly founded in 1004, was and remained a regionally important pilgrimage center until the end. The Armenian St. Mary's Cathedral was founded in the citadel around 1425 and served as the seat of the Archbishop of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The Georgskirche (1845/55) was in the upper town, the St. Toros Church in the lower town. Since 1869 there were also two Protestant parishes with their own churches; the Catholics had a chapel.
Bedros Sarajian served as the city's Armenian Archbishop from 1910 to 1915 . He rebuilt the church buildings destroyed by the Armenian massacres in 1909 and rebuilt the orphanage in St. Jacob's Monastery. During the genocide in 1915 he was deported with the Armenian population, but later returned temporarily with a few thousand. In 1920 Kemalists conquered the city against fierce resistance; only a few hundred Armenians escaped to Adana.
The city of Hadjin has since been renamed Saimbeyli in honor of Yüzbaşı (captain) Saim Bey, who died in 1920 fighting the Armenians.
Personalities
- İsmail Akbaşlı (* 1963), Turkish soccer player and coach
- Hampartsum Boyadjian (1867–1915), Ottoman-Armenian member of parliament
- Ali Küçükaydın (* 1948), Turkish civil servant and politician
- Hagop Terzian (1879–1915), Armenian pharmacist and writer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nufusu.com Türkiye Nüfusu , accessed August 28, 2019.
- ↑ See Rose Lambert: Hadjin, and the Armenian Massacres. Fleming H. Revell, New York - London 1911.
Web links
- Hadjin - Churches (2014)
