Tomarza
It is understood from the ancient animal statues, coins and relief paintings that are exhibited in the museums in Kayseri today, located in the town center and Dadaloğlu Town, where the region is a very old settlement. After Alparslan's Manzikert Victory in 1071, the region remained under the rule of the Cappadocians, the Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great, the Persian Empire and the Romans, until the conquest of Anatolia. After the Manzikert Victory, Uighur Turks and Afshar Turks from Iran settled in the region. When Tomarza was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, it was called and ruled by the same name. After the proclamation of the Republic, some of the Turkish families brought to Turkey with the Population Exchange agreements signed with Greece in 1924 were settled in Tomarza and some of its neighborhoods. After that, many Turkish families from Bulgaria were settled in Tomarza center in 1936, 1940 and 1950. Tomarza hosted the Kuva-yi Milliye forces during the First World War. Especially the Pusatlı neighborhood and its surroundings became the arsenal warehouse for the Kuvâ-yi Milliye. The name of the neighborhood comes from here. Pusat means gun and ammo. The French began to occupy Anatolia from the south and occupied the whole of Adana, and from there they came to the provincial border of Kayseri. Then they came to the town of Bakırdagi, the only occupied territory of Kayseri. The Kuva-yi Milliye units, who heard about this, placed ammunition in Pusatlı and its surroundings. While it was a sub-district center of the Develi district before, it became a town on January 4, 1949 by taking the status of a municipality. With the law published in the Official Gazette dated March 3, 1953 and numbered 8349, Tomarza gained the status of a district.
