Pozantı
| Pozantı | |
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 Pozantı
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| Coordinates: 37°25′40″N 34°52′16″E / 37.42778°N 34.87111°ECoordinates: 37°25′40″N 34°52′16″E / 37.42778°N 34.87111°E | |
| Country |
 Turkey
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| Province | Adana |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Mustafa Çay (MHP) |
| • Kaymakam | Bülent Karacan |
| Area | |
| • District | 793.33 km2 (306.31 sq mi) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Urban | 9,955 |
| • District | 19,812 |
| • District density | 25/km2 (65/sq mi) |
| Website | www |
Pozantı (Ancient Greek: Πενδοσις, Pendhòsis, formerly Arab: El Bedendum) is a town and a district in the Adana Province of Turkey. The town is the at the highlands of Çukurova, and is the major gateway to the Mediterranean coasts. Pozantı stands in the foothills, at the bottom of a rare pass through these high mountains. The mayor is Mustafa Çay (MHP).
Pozantı has had a number of names. In antiquity it was Pendonsis or Pendosis. To the Arabs El Bedendum and finally Bozantı and Pozantı in Turkish.
Standing at the entrance to a pass across the Taurus Mountains, Pendonsis was a city of strategic importance, the gateway between the high plain of Anatolia and the low plain of Cilicia or Çukurova and thus the Middle East. Pozantı has successively passed though the hands of Hittites, Persians, Alexander the Great, Rome and Byzantium. In the period of the Abbasids the armies of Islam moved through. And then following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 the Turks made took over. During the Crusades, control of the pass was returned to the Byzantines, then the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, the Mamluks and was finally brought under Ottoman control by Selim I in his campaign of 1517.
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