 That Catholicos had the right to prepare the sacred myron (oil) and to preside over a synod, but was in fact not more than a metropolitan, and regarded by many Armenians as schismatic.In the Ottoman period, Kozan was in the sanjak of Adana, and the seat of the kaza of Kozan.At the turn of the twentieth century, about 5,600 of its population of 8,000 were Armenians.