Karaisalı is a

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Adana Province Adana Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey located in central Cilicia. The administrative seat of the province is the city of Adana, home to 78.25% of the r ...

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. Its area is 1,165 km², and its population is 22,042 (2022). The area contains the reservoirs of Çatalan and Nergizlik. There is a wrestling tournament in late-April to early-May at Salbaş and a countryside festival in the last week of August at Kızıldağ.

History

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times there was a town here named Midelle. Throughout history, the town was controlled by several kingdoms, such as the

Seljuk Turks The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids ( ; , ''Saljuqian'',) alternatively spelled as Saljuqids or Seljuk Turks, was an Oghuz Turks, Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate society, Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persi ...

and

Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, also known as Cilician Armenia, Lesser Armenia, Little Armenia or New Armenia, and formerly known as the Armenian Principality of Cilicia, was an Armenian state formed during the High Middle Ages by Armenian ...

. Following the arrival of the Turks in the area the name was changed to Çeceli and inhabited by the Yüreğir and Menemencioğulları and Ramazanoğulları tribes. Between 1481 and 1496 the town was controlled by the

Mamluk Sultanate The Mamluk Sultanate (), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries, with Cairo as its capital. It was ruled by a military caste of mamluks ...

and once it was defeated by the Ottoman sultan

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, he left the control of the town to the Ramazanoğulları dynasty as a vassal state. The current name Karaisalı was later given in memory of a Ramazanoğulları lord. Right before his death in 1520 however,

decided to formally annex the town and the surrounding region into the

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. The town was not occupied by the Allies during the

Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

in the early 1920s and became a centre of Turkish resistance against the Allies for the

Çukurova Çukurova (), or the Cilician Plain (''Cilicia Pedias'' in antiquity), is a large fertile plain in the Cilicia region of southern Anatolia. The plain covers the easternmost areas of Mersin Province, southern and central Adana Province, western Os ...

area.

Composition

There are 62

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in Karaisalı District: * Akçalı * Aktaş * Altınova * Aşağıbelemedik * Aşağıyörükler * Ayakkıf * Barakdağı * Başkıf * Bekirli * Beydemir * Bolacalı * Boztahta * Bucak * Çakallı * Çatalan * Çeceli * Çevlik * Çocuklar * Çorlu * Çukur * Demirçit * Döşekevi * Durak * Eğlence * Emelcik * Etekli * Fettahlı * Filikli * Gildirli * Gökhasanlı * Gülüşlü * Güvenç * Hacılı * Hacımusalı * Kaledağı * Kapıkaya * Karahasanlı * Karakılıç * Karakuyu * Karapınar * Kıralan * Kırıklı * Kocaveliler * Körüklü * Kuşcusofulu * Kuyucu * Kuzgun * Maraşlı * Murtçukuru * Nergizlik * Nuhlu * Ömerli * Sadıkali * Sarımehmetli * Saypınar * Selampınar * Tatık * Topaktaş * Topkaralı * Torunsolaklı * Tümenli * Yazıbaşı

Climate

Karaisalı has a

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: ''Csa'') with mild, rainy winters and very hot, dry, yet muggy summers.

Places of interest

*The Roman built Milvan Castle in the village of Karakılıç. *The silk road caravanserai Kesiri Han in the village of Altınova. *Another Roman castle Keçi Kalesi 40 km north-east of Karaisalı in the village of Etekli. has commanding views from its hill-top position. *The wooded hillside picnic areas of Yerköprü and Kızıldağ in particular Kapıkaya Canyon. *The attractive remote village of Kalayçılar. 7 km from the village of Hacılı on a dirt road. *Turkey's highest bridge, the long and high German built railway viaduct Varda Bridge in the village of Hacıkırı (Kıralan). *The Fish restaurant in Demirçit or otherwise known as Bolagat.

Notable people

Long-term mayor of Adana, Aytaç Durak is from Karaisalı and during his term the district was included in the Metropolitan Municipality of Adana.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Karaisali Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey Districts of Adana Province Populated places in Adana Province