Fatsa is a municipality and

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. Its area is 363 km², and its population is 126,775 (2022). It lies on the

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coast.

Name

The oldest recorded name of the town is Polemonion (, Latinized as Polemonium), after Polemon I of Pontus. A derivative of Polemonion, i.e. Bolaman, is the modern name of the river passing through Fatsa (the river is the ancient ''Sidenus''). The present name, Fatsa, has been influenced by

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Φάτσα or Φάτσα Πόντου (φἀτσα is derived from

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''faccia''), which translates as "face or housefront on the sea", but has in fact mutated from Fanizan, the name of the daughter of King Pharnaces II of Pontus, through Fanise, Phadisana (), Phadsane Phatisanê Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin, Description historique et géographique de l'Asie Mineure, comprenant les temps anciens, le moyen age et les temps modernes, avec un précis détaillé des voyages qui ont été faits dans la péninsule, depuis l'époque des croisades jusqu'aux temps les plus récents; précédé d'un tableau de l'hstoire géographique de l'Asie, depuis les plus anciens temps jusqu'à nos jours. Vadisani (), Phabda, Pytane, Facha, Fatsah into today's Fatsa. Apart from Polemonion, another Greek name of the town was Side.

History

Antiquity

The history of Fatsa goes back to antiquity, when the coast was settled by

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, and

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in the centuries BC. The ruins on Mount Çıngırt (the ancient rock tombs and vaults) are from this period.

Roman and Byzantine periods

Fatsa was first mentioned, in the era of the

Kingdom of Pontus Pontus ( ) was a Hellenistic kingdom centered in the historical region of Pontus in modern-day Turkey, and ruled by the Mithridatic dynasty of Persian origin, which may have been directly related to Darius the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty. ...

, as ''Polemonium'', after King Polemon I, the Roman client king appointed by

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. Under

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, the kingdom became a Roman province in AD 62. In about 295,

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(r. 284–305) divided the province into three smaller provinces, one of which was Pontus Polemoniacus, called after Polemonium, which was its administrative capital. As the

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developed into the

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, the city lost some of its regional importance. Neocaesarea became the capital of the province, and the Diocese of Polemonion was a

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of the

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of Neocaesarea.DIMITRI KOROBEINIKOV (2003): Orthodox Communities in Eastern Anatolia in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.1 Part 1: The Two Patriarchates: Constantinople and Antioch, Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 15:2, 197-214 Due to partition of the Byzantine Empire as a result of the

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, Fatsa became a part of the

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in 1204. In the 13th and 14th centuries Genoese traders established trading posts on the Black Sea coast. Fatsa became one of the most important of these ports. There is a stone warehouse on the shore built in this period.

Ottoman period

Following the conquest of the Empire of Trebizond by the Ottomans in 1461, Fatsa become a part of Rûm Eyalet and later a part of Trebizond Eyalet of the

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and remained within the Sanjak of Janik until the collapse of the Empire in 1921. Fatsa became a district of Ordu Province, following the formation of the

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in 1923.

Archaeology

In 2020, archaeologist discovered ruins of a church at the bottom of the lake Gaga. Discovered in 2021, the ruins of a monastery dedicated to Saints Constantine and Helena and dating back to the 5th or 6th century were excavated in the following years.

Population movement

Following the Turkish conquest of

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by the

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and later by the Ottomans, Muslim settlers arrived at Fatsa in the middle of the 14th Century.David Winfield et al., Some Byzantine Churches from the Pontus, Anatolian Studies, Vol. 12 (1962), pp. 131-161 The early Muslim Turkish settlers included Turkomens, whose descendants make up the majority of Fatsa's current Alevi Muslim community.Morgül Kerem, A History of Social Struggles in Fatsa 1960-1980, Boğaziçi University, 2007. In 1999, a religious worship complex that serves to both Alevis and

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was opened in Fatsa, which was unprecedented in Turkey. In the second half of the 19th century, Fatsa's

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population increased significantly, as some of Chveneburi (Sunni Muslim

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) from

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and

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(Turkish: ''Çürüksu''), who fought in the Ottoman army against the Russian forces in

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under Ali Pasha of Çürüksu and some of the

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and

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,Donald Presgrave Little et al., Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J. Adams, Brill Academic Pub; First Edition (April 1, 1991), who were forced to leave their ancestral land in

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after the end of the Caucasian War in 1864, were settled in Fatsa and in the surrounding villages. The Circassian immigrants had an immediate impact on the local economy by introducing silk production to the area. In 1868, 3 million

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s worth of silk was sold in Fatsa. During the Byzantine period, as early as the 9th century, an Orthodox

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was located in Fatsa (''Diocese of Polemonion''). Fatsa's

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population during the Ottoman era was made up by

and

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, who thrived as craftsmen and bureaucrats. According to the last Ottoman census carried out in 1914, the Christians made up 12% of Fatsa's total population of 40,339. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Fatsa's Christian population diminished. The last Pontic Greek community left Fatsa in 1923 as a part of the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, when 770 Muslim families from

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were settled in Fatsa and the indigenous

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population of Fatsa were settled in

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and in the village of Trilofos Himachal, both in the Pieria region of

. Two members of Fatsa's Pontic Greek community, after the population exchange in 1923, became politicians in Greece; Alexander Deligiannidis, born in Fatsa in 1914 served in the Greek Parliament as a member of National Radical Union Party (1956 - 1964) and Takis Terzopoulos, born in Fatsa in 1920 served as the mayor of Katerini (1964 - 1967). The book titled ''Literary Publications, Testimonials and Narratives in Pieria (1918 - 2010)'' (Greek: ''Λογοτεχνικές εκδόσεις, μαρτυρίες και αφηγήσεις στην Πιερία'') includes chronicles of some of Fatsa's Pontic Greeks on their exodus from Fatsa to Katerini, including an anecdotal account by Chalkidis Ef. Theophilus (Greek: Χαλκίδης Ευθ. Θεόφιλος) (b. Fatsa in 1900 - d. Katerini 1985). In 1919, in Fatsa, there were 8 churches (

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, Greek Evangelical and Armenian Apostolic) served by 9 priests. After the departure of the last Christian community in 1923, the churches were closed and later demolished. The last remaining church in Fatsa was in town's Kurtuluş District and was demolished in the late 1980s.

Politics

Social unrest in 1970s-1980s

During the social unrest in Turkey in the 1970s, a major international incident in the area was the kidnapping of three

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engineers (two

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, one

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) from the Ünye radar station in 1972 by the members of People's Liberation Army of Turkey, which had a support base in Fatsa. In 1976, Nazmiye Komitoğlu was elected as the mayor of Fatsa, who was the first female mayor elected in the Black Sea region of Turkey. Following her death in office,ENGİN BOZKURT, THE CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCES IN TURKEY: THE CASE OF HOZAT MUNICIPALITY, MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, 2011 Fikri Sönmez, a local Chveneburi, was elected as the mayor on 14 October 1979. Sönmez and his Marxist–Leninist organisation Devrimci Yol, which was made up by local committees under the slogan "The red sun will rise in Fatsa", controlled the municipality until 11 July 1980. After his election as the mayor, Sönmez divided Fatsa into eleven regions and created people's committees, which had power to recall government authorities. Sönmez was blamed creating a new state inside the Turkish Republic by the prime minister of Turkey at the time,

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. This era ended when, upon the initiative of the

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supporting the provincial governor, the Turkish military conducted an operation called Operation Target (Turkish: ''Nokta Operasyonu'') against the town. On 8 July 1980, the

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surrounded Fatsa. On 9 July the General Staff of Turkish Armed Forces, General Kenan Evren arrived at Fatsa. On 11 July 1980, the army moved into the town, and Mayor Sönmez and 300 others were arrested by the army. OperationTarget is believed to be the rehearsal for the

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led by Gen. Kenan Evren. Throughout this turbulent period, Fatsa lost a significant number of its people as they migrated away to jobs in Turkey's larger cities or abroad. Immigrants from Fatsa constitute the largest proportion of the Turkish community in

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Current

The current mayor of Fatsa is İbrahim Etem Kibar from the conservative

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Geography and climate

Fatsa is located on a strip of coastline between the

and the Janik Mountains (Turkish: ''Canik'') and watered by the rivers of ''Elekçi'', ''Bolaman'', ''Yapraklı'' and ''Belice''. Fatsa has a

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(

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: ''Cfa''); warm and humid in summer, cool and damp in winter, with occasional - but sometimes heavy - snowfalls.

Composition

There are 89

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in Fatsa District: * Ahmetler * Arpalık * Aşağıardıç * Aşağıtepe * Aşağıyavaş * Aslancami * Ayazlı * Bacanak * Bağlarca * Bahçeler * Başköy * Beyceli * Bolaman * Bozdağı * Bucaklı * Buhari * Bülbülköy * Büyükkoç * Çömlekli * Çöteli * Demirci * Dereyurt * Dolunay * Duayeri * Düğünlük * Dumlupınar * Eskiordu * Evkaf * Fatih * Geyikçeli * Gölköy * Güvercinlik * Hacıköy * Hamlık * Hatipli * Hıdırbeyli * Hoylu * Ilıca * İnönü * İslamdağ * Kabakdağı * Kaleönü * Karataş * Kargucak * Karşıyaka * Kavraz * Kayaca * Kayaköy Akçakese * Kılavuzömer * Kılıçlı * Konakbaşı * Kösebucağı * Küçükkoç * Kulakköy * Küpdüşen * Kurtuluş * Mehmetakif * Meşebükü * Mustafa Kemalpaşa * Oluklu * Örencik * Palazlı Kömürlük * Sakarya * Salihli * Saraytepe * Sazcılar * Sefaköy * Şerefiye * Sudere * Tahtabaş * Taşlıca * Tayalı * Tepecik * Uzundere * Yalıköy * Yapraklı * Yassıbahçe * Yassıtaş * Yavaş * Yenidoğan * Yenikent * Yenipazar * Yeniyurt * Yeşilköy * Yeşiltepe * Yukarıardıç * Yukarıbahçeler * Yukarıtepe * Yusuflu

Economy

The local economy depends on agriculture and fishing. In the early 20th century, the town thrived as a port and trading post, as there was no coastal road to in the region. There are fishing fleets harboured at the port in Fatsa and in the small districts of Yalıköy and Bolaman (''Polemonium'') and in the hamlet of Belice, which forms a natural harbour. The Black Sea Coastal Highway runs through Fatsa bringing passing trade. Before the 20th century,

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and

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were the main grains grown in the hinterland. From the 1920s onwards, the coastal swamps were dried up by irrigation works, rice growing ceased and the town grew. During this time, hazelnuts were introduced to the area. About 80% of arable land is planted with

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. The higher mountain areas of the district are covered in forest.

Places of interest

The countryside and coast of Fatsa are lush in spring and summer time. A number of places in and around the town attract visitors, including; * The Belice rock on sea * The ruins of the Pontic Greek Göreği Monastery, 5 km west of Fatsa * Mount Çıngırt ancient rock tombs and vaults * Lake Gaga - 10 km south-east of Fatsa * The ruins of Bolaman Castle and the Haznedaroğlu mansion * Town's promenade * The mineral water springs of ''Ilıca'' The annual Fatsa Çınar Festival was used to be held in July which included concerts, sports competitions, a beauty contest and various other activities. The last festival was held in 2008.

Notable natives

* Hekimoğlu İbrahim - Folk hero and outlaw who was involved in the skirmishes between the local Chveneburi (Muslim Georgian) and Turks in the early 20th century (b. Fatsa ? - d. Fatsa 1918) * Soytaroğlu İsmail - Folk hero and outlaw who was involved in the skirmishes between the local Chveneburi and Turks in the early 20th century (b. Vona ? - d. Ordu 1923) * Alexander Deligiannidis ( Αλέξανδρος Δεληγιαννίδης) (b. Fatsa 1914 -

1969) - Ethnic

from Fatsa. Served in the Greek Parliament as a member of the National Radical Union Party. * Takis Terzopoulos ( Τάκης Τερζόπουλος) (b. Fatsa 1920 - d.

, Greece 1989) - Ethnic

from Fatsa. Served as a mayor of Katerini in Greece. * Fikri Sönmez ("Fikri The Tailor") - Revolutionary, mayor of Fatsa. Ethnic Chveneburi (b. Fatsa 1938 - d.

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1985) *

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- Actor and director, who spent his childhood in Fatsa (b. 1943,

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- ) * Dursun Ali Akınet - Folk poet, ethnic Chveneburi (b. Fatsa 1945 - ) *

Kadir İnanır Kadir İnanır (born 15 April 1949) is a Turkish people, Turkish film actor and Film director, director. Biography İnanır was born on 15 April 1949 in Fatsa, a town in Ordu Province, Ordu province of Turkey. In the Turkish movie industry (Ye� ...

- Actor and director (b. Fatsa 1949 - ) * Erdoğan Arıca - Football player and coach (b. Fatsa 1954 - d. Istanbul 2012) * Mehmet Gümüş - Singer (b. Fatsa ? -) * Eyüp Fatsa - Politician, member of the Turkish Parliament (b. Fatsa 1961 - ) * Levent İnanır - Actor (b. Fatsa 1962 - ) * İlhan Saygılı - Diplomat, served as the Consul General of Turkey in

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until 2011. (b. Fatsa ? - ) *

Soner Arıca Soner Arıca (born 5 February 1966) is a Turkish people, Turkish singer and record producer. Biography He was born as the youngest of seven children in the Fatsa district of Ordu Province, Turkey. Later, he moved to Istanbul and studied in Şiş ...

- Model and singer (b. Fatsa 1966 - ) * Moody E. Prior - (1901-1996) - Ethnic Pontic Greek- Birth name Papadapolous- Northwestern University professor of the Humanities and English and an authority on Shakespeare - Dean of the Graduate SchoolNorthwestern University Archival and Manuscript Collections

References

External links

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District governor's official website
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