Tomarza

Tomarza

Tomarza is a district 55 km away from Kayseri. It is also located in the southeast of Erciyes. That the region is a very old settlement is understood from the animal statues, coins and relief paintings from the ancient ages found in the district center and Dadaloğlu Town and exhibited in museums in Kayseri today. After Alparslan's Manzikert Victory in 1071, the region remained under the rule of the Cappadocians, Alexander the Great's Macedonian Empire, Persian Empire and Romans, respectively, until the conquest of Anatolia. After the Manzikert Victory, Uyghur Turks and Afshar Turks from Iran settled in the region. Tomarza was also called and governed by the same name when it was under the Ottoman Empire. After the proclamation of the Republic, some of the Turkish families brought to Turkey with the Population Exchange agreements signed with Greece in 1924 were settled in Tomarza and some of its neighborhoods. After that, many Turkish families coming from Bulgaria in 1936, 1940 and 1950 were settled in the center of Tomarza. Tomarza hosted the Kuva-yi Milliye forces during World War I. Especially the Pusatlı neighborhood and its surroundings became an ammunition depot for the Kuva-yi Milliye. This is where the name of the neighborhood comes from. Pusat means weapons and ammunition. The French started to invade Anatolia from the south and occupied the whole of Adana and from there they reached the Kayseri provincial border. Then they came to the town of Bakırdağı, the only occupied land of Kayseri. Hearing this, Kuva-yi Milliye troops placed ammunition in Pusatlı and its surroundings. While it was previously a sub-district center of Develi district, it became a town by gaining municipal status on January 4, 1949. Tomarza gained district status with the law published in the Official Gazette dated 03.03.1953 and numbered 8349. There is 1 municipality and 46 villages affiliated to Tomarza. Summers are hot and dry, winters are cold and snowy. The temperature difference between night and day is very high. Except for June, July and August, the night temperature drops below 0°. The total surface area of the district, with an altitude of 1402 meters, is 1,485 km².