Tomarza

Tomarza lies southeast of Kayseri among the uplands and valleys of Cappadocia. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the settlement and neighbouring lands belonged to religious endowments based in Kayseri. Ottoman tax records around 1500 describe a community with both Muslim and Christian households, many of the latter Armenian. The Armenian monastery of Surp Astvatsatsin recalls the religious life of the town in the following century.