İncesu is a municipality and

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

Kayseri Province The Kayseri Province () is a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey. Its area is 16,970 km2, and its population is 1,441,523 (2022). It borders with Sivas, Adana, Niğde, Kahramanmaraş, Yozgat and Nevşehir provinces. T ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. Its area is 874 km², and its population is 29,120 (2022). The mayor is Mustafa İlmek ( AKP). It has been identified with the ancient town ''Sadogora'' or ''Sadacora''.

History

At the beginning of the 20th century,

Greeks Greeks or Hellenes (; , ) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Greek Cypriots, Cyprus, Greeks in Albania, southern Albania, Greeks in Turkey#History, Anatolia, parts of Greeks in Italy, Italy and Egyptian Greeks, Egypt, and to a l ...

still formed part of the population of İncesu. Most of them went with the Turkish-Greek Population Exchange. There is the Kara Mustafa Pasha Caravanserai built by

Kara Mustafa Pasha Kara Mustafa Pasha (; ; "Mustafa Pasha the Courageous"; 1634/1635 – 25 December 1683) was an Ottoman nobleman, military figure and Grand Vizier, who was a central character in the Ottoman Empire's last attempts at expansion into both Centr ...

in 1660 in İncesu. In 2021, archaeologists discovered late

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of Roman civilization *Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ...

and early

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...

houses, with inscriptions and mosaics.

Composition

There are 33

neighbourhoods A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...

in İncesu District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. * Bahçelievler * Bahçesaray * Bulgurcu * Çardaklı * Dokuzpınar * Fırınönü * Garipçe * Gönenkent * Güney * Hamurcu * Karahüyük * Karakoyunlu * Karamustafapaşa * Kızılören Aşağı * Kızılören Ötebatan * Kızılören Tabaklı * Küllü * Örenşehir * Orta * Saraycık * Sarıkürklü * Semerkent * Şeyhşaban * Subaşı * Süksün Cumhuriyet * Süksün Hürriyet * Süksün Zafer * Sultansazı * Tahirinli * Üçkuyu * Vali Ihsan Aras * Yarım * Yenicami

References

Populated places in Kayseri Province Districts of Kayseri Province Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey {{Kayseri-geo-stub