Poutza

Poutza ({{langx|grc|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.{{sfn|Soustal|1991|p=418}} John of Poutza, who in {{circa|1146}} served as finance minister of Manuel I Komnenos, probably hailed from this locality.{{sfn|Soustal|1991|p=418}} 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,{{sfn|Soustal|1991|p=418}} 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.{{sfn|Soustal|1991|p=418}} Its exact location or present identification are unknown.{{sfn|Soustal|1991|p=418}}