Kadirli

Kadirli is a city and district of Osmaniye Province in the Mediterranean place of Turkey. The Cilicia/Cukurova simple is rich farmland and a place of strategic importance on an vital change route among the Middle East and Anatolia. It has been settled because the time of the Hittites and after by using diverse civilizations: Assyrians, Romans, Byzantines, Armenians and finally Turks.

The maximum distinguished organization of Turks to settle here have been the Dulkadir lords, semi-autonomous barons throughout the Ottoman technology, who dominated Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras and Hatay for 2 centuries. They have been dispersed after the land changed into captured via the Ottoman sultan Yavuz Sultan Selim I in 1517. Kadirli become occupied via French forces at the give up of the First World War underneath the terms of the armistice signed by using the Ottoman Empire.

The French forces were resisted by way of local peoples and eventually withdrew from the town in March 1920. Kadirli changed into a district in Kozan province among 1923-1926 and in Adana Province between 1926-1995. In 1996, the province of Osmaniye province being linked to Osmaniye. Kadirli is a small metropolis imparting the simple infrastructure, together with stores and faculties, to a place of rich farmland, which produces grain and 75% of Turkey's radishes. There are two reservoirs for irrigating the location. There is small scale industry.