Mersin
Mersin (Armenie: Մերսին, Auncient Greek: Ζεφύριον, Zephyrion) is a lairge ceety an a busy port on the Mediterranean coast o soouthren Turkey. The metropolitan aurie in the entire Mersin Province haed a population of 843,429 as o 2010,[1] makin it Turkey's tent maist muckle ceety. It is an aw pairt o an interurban agglomeration - Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Aurie an lies on the wast pairt o Çukurova, a geographical, economical an cultural region.
Mersin is important for Turkey's economy, an Turkey's biggest port is locatit here.
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[edit] Etymology
Accordin tae Evliya Çelebi, the ceety is named efter the Mersinoğullari tribe; anither theory is that it is derived frae the myrtle (Greek: μύρτος, μυρσίνη) which grows abundantly in the region.[2]
[edit] Climate
Mersin haes a typical Mediterranean climate wi hot an dry simmers an ceul an wet winters. Mersin haes its heichest rainfaw in winter; mainly December an Januar which gives Mersin its healthy, nurtured coastline. The driest months are simmer wi hardly ony rainfaw at aw.
[edit] Internaitional relations
[edit] Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Mersin is twinned wi:
[edit] See an aw
- Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Aurie
- Çukurova
- Akdeniz, interceety municipality o Mersin
- Mezitli, interceety municipality o Mersin
- Toroslar, interceety municipality o Mersin
- Yenişehir, interceety municipality o Mersin
- Cilicie War
- Gözne
- Soli, Cilicie
- Yumuktepe
- Kazanlı
- Chronology o the Turkis War o Unthirldom
- Leet o mayors o Mersin
- Mersin İdmanyurdu, fitbaa team o the ceety
- Gulf o Mersin
- Mersin Grand Mosque
- Mersin Harbor
- Mersin railway station
- Mersin Halkevi
- Mertim
- Mersin Feneri
- Muğdat Mosque
- Atatürk Parkı
[edit] References
[edit] Notes
- Blue Guide, Turkey, The Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts (ISBN 0-393-30489-2), pp. 556–557.
- Blood-Dark Track: A Family History (Granta Books) by Joseph O'Neill, contains a detailed and evocative history of the city, viewed from the perspective of a Christian Syrian family long resident in Mersin.
- Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), p. 66
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