Tomarza
| Tomarza | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Kayseri | |||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 27 ' N , 35 ° 48' E | |||
| Height : | 1330 m | |||
| Residents : | 10,629 (2007) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 352 | |||
| Postal code : | 38 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 38 | |||
| Structure and administration | ||||
| Mayor : | Fahrettin Işık ( AKP ) | |||
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| Tomarza County | ||||
| Residents : | 28,107 (2007) | |||
| Surface: | 1,485 km² | |||
| Population density : | 19 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Recep Öztürk | |||
| Website (Kaymakam): | ||||
Tomarza is a district in the Kayseri Province of Turkey , which was still inhabited by Armenians at the beginning of the 20th century . It has 27,944 inhabitants. There are 3 communities and 46 villages in the district. It was declared a district in 1953, is 1330 m above sea level and has an area of 1485 km².
The Byzantine-Seljuk castle of Tzamandos (also Zamantı Kalesi ) is near the village of Melikgazi ( Pınarbaşı (Kayseri) district ).
Church history
The deserted area "in the no man's land between Byzantium and the Arabs" was settled with compatriots by the Armenian-Byzantine general Melias at the beginning of the 10th century and raised to a Syrian-Orthodox metropolis in 954/957. In 1065 Emperor Konstantinos X. Dukas handed the place over to the exiled King Gagik of Kars. The Armenian Catholicos Gregor II resided here from 1065 to 1069 . At the end of the 19th century Tomarza still had 38 Turkish and a few Greek houses of 980 households , the remaining houses were inhabited by Armenians . In the village there were the churches Aziz Boğos and Bedros , in the eastern part the Surp Asdvadzadzin Mother of God monastery with an early Christian church building ( Panagia ), 6th century. An Armenian diocese and monastery existed until the 1st World War.
literature
- Hans Rott: Monuments from Asia Minor from Pisidia, Pamphylia, Cappadocia and Lycia. Dieterich, Leipzig 1908, 180-187;
- Steven Hill: The Early Christian Church at Tomarza - A Study Based on Photographs Taken in 1909 by Gertrude Bell . In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers 29 (1975) 151-164 (on Panagia Church);
- Sevgi Parlak: Une citadelle du Moyen Âge: Forteresse de Tzamandos (Zamanti) . In: Synergies Turquie No. 4 (2011) 59-68 (online: https://gerflint.fr/Base/Turquie4/parlak.pdf );
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tomarza Kaymakamlığı . Retrieved April 11, 2010.
- ↑ Thomas H. Benner: The Syrian-Jacobite Church under Byzantine rule in the 10th and 11th centuries , Diss. Theol. Marburg 1989, 173f.