Pozantı
| Pozantı | ||||
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 Ataturk monument in the center of the village |
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Adana | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 26 ' N , 34 ° 52' E | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 322 | |||
| Postal code : | 01 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 01 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 21 Mahalle | |||
| Mayor : | Mustafa Çay ( MHP ) | |||
| Postal address : | Ataturk Cad. Üzeri 01470 Seyhan / ADANA |
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| Pozantı County | ||||
| Residents : | 20,683 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 899 km² | |||
| Population density : | 23 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Muammer Saridoğan | |||
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Pozantı is a town and a district of the province of Adana in Turkey . Since 2013, the municipality and the district have had the same area and population. The city lies on the river Çakıt Çayı . The ancient name of the city was Podandus , Podando in the Itinerarium Antonini (whether Padyandus, Padaton, the Paduando in the Tabula Peutingeriana , can be equated with Pozantı, is disputed). The Burdigalense Itinerarium has mansio opodando . The Arabs called the city El Bedendum, from which the Turkish name Bozantı / Pozantı developed.
Podandus was on the Roman road to the Cilician Gate ( Via Tauri ), as numerous milestone finds prove. No finds are known from the urban area itself, Richard P. Harper assumes that the ancient settlement was at the confluence of the Çakıt and the Kamışlı Dere , where there are now orchards. From here comes a milestone Caracallas , who describes how this emperor had the Cilician gate extended: " Viam Tauri vetustate conlapsam conplanatis montibus et caesis rupibus ac dilatatis itineribus cum pontibus institutis restituit ".
The city is named by Konstantinos Porphyrogenitus , who also mentions the fortress of Rodentos. Like Loulon, it is in the extreme south of the Cappadocian theme . When Valens divided the province of Cappadocia in 372, Caesareia remained the capital of Cappadocia Prima in the north, Podandos became the capital of Cappadocia Secunda in the south. Basilios of Caesarea contemptuously describes the settlement as a "hole" ( barathrum ) in the Taurus and compared it to the pit of Oeadas of the Spartans or one of the natural crevices from which a poisonous smoke rises and which are called Charonian. Podandus was soon replaced by Tyana .
Today the city is best known for the Şekerpınar spring. At the entrance to the pass through the Taurus is the castle of Anahşa from Byzantine times (Rodentos), which the Crusaders called Butrentum, probably a contraction with the place name. The Arabic name was Hisn Assakaliba , after the Slavic garrison. The soldiers of the first crusade are said to have scratched numerous crosses on the rocks around the castle, but Ramsay could no longer find them.
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- ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu , accessed August 28, 2019
- ↑ Cornelia A. Noordegraaf Pendonsis or Pendosis. A Geographical Papyrus, Mnemosyne, Third Series 6/3, 1938, 273-310
- ^ Richard P. Harper, Podandus and the via Tauri. Anatolian Studies 20, 1970, 149-153
- ^ WM Ramsay, Cilicia, Tarsus, and the Great Taurus Pass. The Geographical Journal 22/4, 1903, 357-410
- ^ WM Ramsay, Geographical Journal 22, 1903, 357-410
