Saimbeyli

Saimbeyli is a small city and a district in Adana Province, Turkey in what was known during the Middle Ages as Cilician Armenia. The city of Saimbeyli is in the Toros mountains, 157 km north of the city of Adana, by a difficult road. The city has a population of 3,952. The city of Saimbeyli is on the river Göksu (one of the sources of the Seyhan, in a valley between the forested mountains of Dibek and Bakır. There is a pass through the mountains from here to Kayseri and the valley is watered by many mountain streams. The area was occupied as far back as the Hittite period and many other civilisations subsequently, including Byzantium. Formerly, the Armenian city of Hadjin stood near Saimbeyli. The name reportedly came from the son of an...