| Kozan, Adana |
Article Index for Kozan |
Shopping Adana |
Website Links For Adana |
Information AboutKozan, Adana |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT KOZAN, ADANA | |
| armenian apostolic church | |
| cities in turkey | |
| history of armenia | |
|
Its population has grown rapidly in recent years, from 54,451 in 1990 to 75,833 in 2000 (census figures). ECONOMY HISTORY Sis ( ecclesiastical history. In 302 , Gregory The Illuminator was consecrated the first Catholicos Of Armenia , but transferred his see to Vagarshabad ( Echmiadzin ), whence, after the fall of the Arsacids , it passed to Tovin . In 704 , Sis was besieged by the Arabs , but relieved by the Byzantines . The Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil took it and refortified it, but it soon returned to Byzantine hands. It was rebuilt in 1186 by Leo II , king of the Armenian Kingdom Of Cilicia , who made it his capital. The catholicate returned to Sis in 1294 , and remained there 150 years. In 1374 , Sis was taken and demolished by the sultan of Egypt , and it has never recovered its prosperity. In 1441 , Sis having fallen from its high estate, the Armenian clergy proposed to remove the see, and on the refusal of the actual Catholicos, Gregory IX , installed a rival at Echmiadzin , who, as soon as Selim I had conquered Greater Armenia , became the more widely accepted of the two by the Armenian church in the Ottoman Empire . The Catholicus of Sis maintained himself nevertheless, and was supported in his pretensions by the Pope up to the middle of the 19th Century , when the patriarch Nerses , declaring finally for Echmiadzin, carried the government with him. In 1885 , Sis tried to declare Echmiadzin schismatic, and in 1895 its clergy took it on themselves to elect a Catholicus without reference to the patriarch; but the Ottoman Empire annulled the election, and only allowed it six years later on Sis renouncing its pretensions to independence. That Catholicus had the right to prepare the sacred myron (oil) and to preside over a Synod , but was in fact not more than a metropolitan, and regarded by many Armenians as schismatic. The lofty castle and the monastery and church built by Leo II, and containing the coronation chair of the kings of Lesser Armenia , were noteworthy in the early 20th Century . SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
|
|
|