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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Etymology [edit]
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]
Climate [edit]
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.
| Climate data for Mersin | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record heich °C (°F) | 21.8 (71.2) |
24.0 (75.2) |
29.8 (85.6) |
33.9 (93.0) |
35.8 (96.4) |
35.0 (95.0) |
36.6 (97.9) |
37.2 (99.0) |
38.5 (101.3) |
36.4 (97.5) |
30.2 (86.4) |
27.0 (80.6) |
29.8 (85.6) |
| Average heich °C (°F) | 14.8 (58.6) |
15.5 (59.9) |
18.2 (64.8) |
21.5 (70.7) |
24.8 (76.6) |
28.1 (82.6) |
30.7 (87.3) |
31.5 (88.7) |
30.0 (86.0) |
26.9 (80.4) |
21.4 (70.5) |
16.5 (61.7) |
23.33 (73.99) |
| Average laich °C (°F) | 6.9 (44.4) |
7.4 (45.3) |
9.8 (49.6) |
13.6 (56.5) |
17.5 (63.5) |
21.5 (70.7) |
24.6 (76.3) |
24.9 (76.8) |
21.8 (71.2) |
17.3 (63.1) |
12.0 (53.6) |
8.4 (47.1) |
15.48 (59.86) |
| Record laich °C (°F) | −2.5 (27.5) |
−3 (26.6) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
3.8 (38.8) |
9.8 (49.6) |
5.3 (41.5) |
18.1 (64.6) |
18.0 (64.4) |
13.9 (57.0) |
8.0 (46.4) |
1.8 (35.2) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
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| Precipitation mm (inches) | 106.2 (4.181) |
79.8 (3.142) |
51.9 (2.043) |
39.4 (1.551) |
24.8 (0.976) |
10.3 (0.406) |
13.2 (0.52) |
8.6 (0.339) |
10.7 (0.421) |
42.3 (1.665) |
84.5 (3.327) |
137.0 (5.394) |
608.7 (23.965) |
| Avg. rainy days | 9.5 | 9.2 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 5.4 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 5.3 | 7.4 | 10.3 | 68.2 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 158.1 | 159.6 | 210.8 | 228 | 272.8 | 303 | 316.2 | 310 | 282 | 241.8 | 177 | 151.9 | 2,811.2 |
| Source: Devlet Meteoroloji İşleri Genel Müdürlüğü[3] | |||||||||||||
Internaitional relations [edit]
Twin touns — Sister ceeties [edit]
Mersin is twinned wi:
See an aw [edit]
- 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
References [edit]
Notes [edit]
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedms2010 - ↑ İçel: Mersin- Tarsus- Çamlıyayla- Erdemli- Silifke- Aydıncık- Bozyazı- Anamur- Gülnar- Mut (Kültür, Turizm ve Tanıtım yayınları, 1992), p. 7.
- ↑ http://www.dmi.gov.tr/veridegerlendirme/il-ve-ilceler-istatistik.aspx?m=MERSIN
- 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
- Template:Catholic
Freemit airtns [edit]
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