Feke

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Feke is a district of Adana Province of Turkey, 122km from the city of Adana, 620m above sea-level, a small town on attractive forested mountainside.

[edit] History

The area was settled by the Hittites in the 16th century BC, the Persians in the 6th century BC, conquered by Alexander the Great in 333BC, and later passed into the hands of the Romans and Byzantines. Feke commands a pass across the Toros mountains directly north of Adana, and a castle was built here in the Byzantine period. The name then was Vahka and has since mutated to today's spelling Feke.) When the armies of Islam took over Cilicia (Çukurova in 1081 the Armenian population fled to the hills and captured the castle from the Byzantines. It later passed into the hands of the Mameluks and then the Ottomans.


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Adana Metropolitan Districts: Seyhan | Yüreğir
External Districts: Aladağ | Ceyhan | Feke | İmamoğlu | Karaisalı | Karataş | Kozan | Pozantı | Saimbeyli | Tufanbeyli | Yumurtalık


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