Poutza

Poutza (Ancient Greek: Ποῦτζα, genitive Πούτζης) was a Byzantine-era settlement near Adrianople in Thrace.

The settlement (qualified as πολίχνιον, "small town") first appears in the Alexiad as the place where the usurper Constantine Diogenes was captured in 1095.¹ John of Poutza, who in c. 1146 served as finance minister of Manuel I Komnenos, probably hailed from this locality.¹ Poutza is most likely to be identified with the district of pertinentia Pucis et Nicodimi, which was assigned to the Republic of Venice in the Partitio Romaniae of 1204,¹ and may also be the chastel Peutaces that was still held by its Greek inhabitants and was attacked unsuccessfully by the Crusaders under Louis de Blois in 1205.¹ Its exact location or present identification are unknown.¹