Feke is a small city and a district in Adana Province

Adana Province

Adana Province is a province of Turkey located in south-central Anatolia. With a population of 2,085,225, it is the fifth most populous province in Turkey. The administrative seat of the province is the city of Adana, home to 78% of the residents of the province...

 of Turkey

Turkey

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, 122 km from the city of Adana, 620m above sea-level, a small town on attractive forested mountainside. The mayor is Ahmet Sel (MHP

Nationalist Movement Party

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).

History

The area was settled by the Hittites

Hittites

The Hittites were a Bronze Age people of Anatolia.They established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia c. the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height c...

 in the 16th century BC, the Persians in the 6th century BC, conquered by Alexander the Great in 333 CE

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, and later passed into the hands of the Romans

Ancient Rome

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 and Byzantines

Byzantine Empire

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Feke commands a pass across the Taurus

Toros

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 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

Cilicia

In antiquity, Cilicia was the south coastal region of Asia Minor, south of the central Anatolian plateau. It existed as a political entity from Hittite times into the Byzantine empire...

 (Çukurova

Çukurova

Çukurova , historically known as Cilicia, is a geographic, economic and cultural region in south-central Turkey, covering the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye and Hatay...

) in 1081 the Armenian

Armenians

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 population fled to the hills and captured the castle from the Byzantines. It became an important stronghold of the Rubenid

Rubenid

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 Dynasty, who later became the rulers of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

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. It later passed into the hands of the Mameluks and then the Ottomans.
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