The Story Behind The Pytane' namePytane is a the recorded oldest name of the Fatsa. And, Fatsa is a town and a district of Ordu Provincein the central Black Sea region of Turkey.Fatsa was first mentioned, in the era of the Kingdom of Pontus, as Polemonium, after King Polemon I, the Roman client king appointed by Mark Antony. Under Nero, the kingdom became a Roman province in AD 62. In about 295, Diocletian (r. 284–305) divided the province into three smaller provinces, one of which was Pontus Polemoniacus, called after Polemonium, which was its administrative capital. Following the conquest of the Empire of Trebizond by the Ottomans in 1461, Fatsa become a part of Rûm Eyalet and later a part of Trebizond Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire and remained within the Sanjak of Janik until the collapse of the Empire in 1921.Fatsa became a district of Ordu Province, following the formation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.