Anatolia that was developed by the Byzantium in 7-11th century and Arabs and small many political societies, Was under the complete influence of the Selçuk culture after the11th century. The influence of the Selçuklular and pursuiting of the other beylic era is very evident. The rich cultural values of the Beylic Ramazanoğlu which marked the Beylic era are still seen

After the era of Beylics the written resources that are left from the Ottoman Empire enlighten the development of the age.(Canonical/Court Records or Ziya Pasha era records)
Turkish tribes (Nomadic Turkoman and Turkoman) who settled down mostly in the mountains rather than plains lived isolated to the outside factors  for long centuries and they succeeded in protecting their 10-15 century Turkish and Moslem culture without changing it a lot.

The settlement of Adana in the region of plains was in the 19th century.(Ottoman Era , Cevdet ve Derviş Pashas era)
With the settlement of the plains the culture started to change. The coming of the industry to the plain sections in the middle of the 20th century created great changes in the region culture and life.

The accumulation of the material and spiritual values of a society form the culture of that society. The synthesis which the inner and outside factors created, determine the culture of a society at that time. his region has been rushed into by different nations due to its productive lands and the geographic location since the prehistorical ages.We can describe  the culture of Çukurova as a building which was piled up piece by piece with stones from these civilisations.

In the factors that form the cultural synthesis, the Hittit culture not only  take place excessively this culture was also enriched with the contributions of the other nations through the history.The influence of the 10 civilisations that had reigned in here is still seen and felt in the cultural life of Adana. The groups which especially influenced the culture of Adana too much was the tribes of Turkoman and nomadic Turkoman.
  

  
.Especially with the increasing population in the Adana plain in the 19th and 20th century created great attemps in the agriculture and industrilisation and a great amount of changes in the culture of the region. Besides, with the mixed plateau,sea and plain culture, a new city culture has been created.

The Marks That Various Cultures Left In The Region
 There are 65 large plotted site in the city belonging to different civilisations.In these site areas there are  urban sites like center of Kozan and county center of Seyhan, archaeological sites like Misis, Magarsus, Anavarza, Natural sites like Ağyatan-Akyatan Yumurtalık lagoons and also monumental culture values.These are religious,military and offical buildings. like Misis ve Adana Stone Bridge, Ulucami,section of a market with the same vendors,inn-Turkish bath.

THE CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE CITY

The Directorate of the Monuments
  The Directorate of Adana Relief Monument founded in 1984 and started working in1985 does the activities about the immovable cultural and natural values belonging to The Ministry of Culture and the caring,repairing construction restoration of the museums,all kind of study,project and practicing services of the museums and its environment. The working area of the Directorate is the cities Adıyaman, Hatay, Gazintep, İçel, Kahramanmaraş, Kilis ve Osmaniye

The Directorate of Protection of Adana Culture and Nature Values
.It was founded in 1987 and started working in 1988. The working area of the Directorate is the cities Adıyaman, Hatay, Gaziantep, İçel, Kahramanmaraş, Kilis ve Osmaniye. All the works are executed by a committee created by five academic
members.This committe decides about the Cultural and Natural Values that must be protected in the mentioned cities
CULTURAL CENTERS

Adana Province Public Library

It was founded by joining the bookcases of Sheikh Ramazanoğlu in 1923. It got the name Province Public Library in 1963.It was moved to Culture Site on 5 January 1976.

Modern Children's Library
  It gives service in the garden of Gazipaşa Avenue, Celalettin Sayhan Primary School.

Mehmet Sabancı Children's Library
  It gives services in a two-storied building built by Hacı Ömer Sabancı Foundation at Yavuzlar Street.

100th Year Children's Library
It gives service in a building given by the Municipality in 1981 in İncirlik. There are also Public Libraries in the counties Ceyhan, Feke, İmamoğlu, Karaisalı, Kozan, Pozantı, Saimbeyli, Tufanbeyli, Yumurtalık Sağkaya and Mercimek.

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State Fine Arts Gallery

The gallery was opened to service in 1978. It was moved to Hacı Ömer Sabancı Culture Center. The aim of the gallery is to spread and develop the plastic art to the public, to provide the artists to exhibit their works of art, to introduce the plastic works of art and make them love.

Theatres

The first theatre was founded to Adana in the Governorship of Ziya Pasha. The Municipality Theatre which is inside the Adana Metropolitan Municipality Building was built as the community center by Turhan Cemal Beriker who was the Chairman of the Municipality in 1926-1938.The chairman of the Community Center Journalist Nihat Oral took great steps in this subject and he established the youth branch in 1941-1948.The theatre was opened and closed at times today it has still
been carrying on its performance.Besides, there is a State Theatre related to the Ministry of Culture in the Culture Site of Hacı Ömer Sabancı

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Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra

It was founded in 1990 related to the the Ministry of Culture Fine Arts General Directorate. It gave its first concert on 5 January 1991.It not only put many native and foreign chief and soloist up but it also gives concerts in Turkey and in foreign countries.

Altın Koza Culture and Art Festival
  This tradition has increased  its activities by coming up to now since 1969 and has become an art affair broadcasting the reputation of Adana. It also has significant contributions in developping the Turkish cinema.

Folk Literature and The Tradition of Minstrels

The folk literature and the tradition of minstrels have been going on in Çukurova since centuries.Many stories,legends, anecdotes,laments and etc were compiled about this subject in the researches.The mostly protected is the the tradition of the minstrels.In Adana the minstrels are divided into two groups as with a stringed instrument and without a stringed instrument. The most popular minstrels are Karacaoğlan and Dadaloğlu. Apart from these many other minstrels are grown up in the region like Aşık Yusuf, Deli Boran, Feymani, Osman Eyyubi, Aşık Abdullah, Gündeşlioğlu, İlbeylioğlu, Kara Osman, Kul Halil, Kul Seydi İçgözoğlu, Aşık Karalı, Hacı Karakılçık, Abdulvahab Kocaman, Aşık Fidani, Aşık Ömer, Aşık Ali, Aşık Hüseyin, Derdiçek and İnce Arap. There are also female minstrels. The mostly known are Durdu, Nazlı Gelin, Sinem Kız, Hasibe Hatun ve Hasibe Ramazonoğu.

Traditional Handicrafts

Even tough the technology has developed in the region the local handicrafts protect its importance. Especially the handicrafts are very widespread in the rural areas.The Authorities spend great efforts to improve the traditional handicrafts and they support these works by the help of the cooperatives.The commonly made handicrafts are carpets,pileless carpets,haircloth,sac, saddle-bag,doorposts and etc.

The Famous People in Science
  Abdullah Sisi, Abdurrahman Efendi, Remzi Oğuz Arık, İbrahim Ağah Çubukçu, Hamza Eroğlu, Ahmet Ramazanoğlu, Ali Sevim.

Folklore

  It is very natural to have a rich folklore in Çukurova that was the scene for the life of different civilisations. There is no possiblity to determine which folklore products of the civilisations living in the old ages have come up to now or whose folklore products have become united with the folklore productivity. It is accurate to say that the beginning of the history of Turkish folklore is the 7th century. The general characteristic of Anatolian folklore is completely seen in the region folklore with some changes.The climate, the division of labour, customs and traditions directly affected the folklore to change from one region to another.The festivals, hunting folklore, the clothings suitable to this kind of lifestyle and independent life attitude had alo of influence on the folklore.The style of the clothings,wedding feasts,javelin, wrestling and the folk dance performed around the fire which are influential on some of Adana villagers are the values that carry their folkloric feature

Bards
  
The coming first bards that the province have grown up were Karacaoğlan and Dadalloğlu.Besides, there are a number of bards whose fame could not pass through their own environment. The tradition of bards started with Karacaoğlan who wondered around Çukurova and other places on his horse with his food and stringed instrument and continued with the other bards like Dadaloğlu, Aşık Yusuf, İlbeylioğlu, Deli Boran, Aşık Abdullah, Gündeşlioğlu, Kara Osman, Kul Halil, Kul Şeydi, Üçgözoğlu, Aşık Ali İlhami, Aşık Ömer, Aşık Hüseyin, Derdiçek, İnce Arap, Aşık İmami, Aşık Halil Karabulut, Aşık Kul Mustafa, Aşık Hacı Karakılçık, Feymani, Aşık Abdülvahap Kocaman, Aşık Deli Hazım Demirci. These bards introduced the Çukurova culture with the legends, lampoons,lyric folk poems in praise of someone, laments,ballads and poems.The female bards also had a significant reputation. Durdu, Nazlı Gelin, Sinem Kız from the region of Karaisalı and Hasibe Hatun from the clan Avşars (a Turkmen tribe living in thenorthern Iraq and southern Anatolia), Hasibe Ramazanoğlu from Adanalı are the most famous ones.

Traditional Food and Drinks

Adana district has a rich food culture.The reason of the richness of the food culture is that Adana has been in the influence of many different cultures and they joined their food with the others according to their own delight.The crucial speciality of Adana food is that they use flour, boiled and pounded wheat, meat, vegetables and a great amount of spices.A lot of salad and green vegetables are eaten with the main course. At the same time milk,yoghurt, cheese and skim milk cheese are used. The meat meals are especially mixed with the vegetables.The legumes are used a great amount of in the vegetables and soup.Examples to the Soup are kesme or paste soup, soup which is like a thimble, düğün çorbası examples to the vegetable meals are süllüm,spinach with lentil, vegetable marrow, examples to the bulgur meals are topalak with sour,meatballs with garlic, içli köfte examples to viscera of animals used as food are şırdan dolması,karın dolması, examples to drinks are şalgam,aşlama,airan kaynar examples to desserts are taş kadayıfı,karakuş tatlısı nemse tatlısı halka tatlı and bici-bici.