Süleymanlı

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Süleymanlı, formerly Zeytun, is a village and the center of a Bucak in the central district of the province of Kahramanmaras in southeastern Turkey.

History

From 1375 Zeytun was initially under the domination Dulkadir, later under the Ottomans an Armenian Beylik. The inhabitants resisted the massacre of the Armenians from 1894 to 1896. The town's name was changed already in the Ottoman period of Zeytun in Yeni Şehir and then in Süleymanlı. Süleymanlı was named after the Turkish Major Süleyman, who occupied the village in 1915 during the genocide of the Armenians.

The original name in later Byzantine period was Ulnia ( " olive "). The name Zeytun is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic equivalent.

Famous people

• Smpad Piurad (1862-1915), Armenian poet, journalist, novelist and publisher