General Information

Referred to by code numbers 33 of the 81 provinces of Turkey, about 16,000 km2 land area. According to the 2010 census, a total of 1,647,899 persons with a population that formerly İÇEL and Mersin province in the east of Adana, Antalya west, north of Nigde, Konya and Karaman, south of the Mediterranean and is surrounded, and all of Gizzard Smooth Cilicia Cilicia 's Berdan River basin covers. The north of the Taurus Mountains stretching away into the highlands to the highest hills, the south and extends westward over the eastern Mediterranean. Kratase mountainous area, Eocene, Miocene and Pliocene sediments consisting of layers of limestone, composed of the accumulation of alluvial plains, which started in the IV.zamanda. Taurus Mountains are mountains in the province are young. Mersin Bolkar remainder of the Taurus Mountains, takes its name. With 3524 meters the highest point Bolkarların Tepesi'dir Medetsiz. Central Taurus Gülek Can not pass (1050 m). The second most important passage in Sertavul Pass near the town of Mut. There is no other lake in the lake a few sets of provinces. Silifke Akgöl, salty waters of Partridge Lake and Paradeniz lakes are linked to the sea and plenty of live fish.
The vegetation is typically Mediterranean climate maki'dir fit. Bay, Wild Olives, Goat Horn, Mersin, oleander, blackberry and Kuşburnu'dur. 100-1000 m. of Oak, 100-1200 m. Red Pine in the 1500-meter Larch and 2000 m. Cedar and juniper trees are located at elevations.
MERSIN connected with a tourist city districts are as follows: the Mediterranean, Anamur, Aydincik, Bozyazi, Çamliyayla, Gulnar, virtuous, Mezitli, Mut, Silifke, Tarsus, and Yenisehir Taurus.

Mersin Delicay streams, Efrenk Creek (Mufti), Tece Lamas River in the west consists of tea, tea with the Mezitli. Anamur Dragon River, in Tarsus Berdan River, and the history of the province that has witnessed significant akarsularındandır Silifke Göksu River. City, sea, sand and sun out of the trilogy, offers a variety of alternative tourism. Faith, Plateau, trekking, rafting, paragliding, water sports, skiing, mountaineering. Yaşanmakla one climbs mountains with different climates, a typical Mediterranean climate prevails along the coastline, so the summers are hot and dry, while winters are mild and rainy. Approximately 108 km from the province. There are long sandy beaches.
69 km from Adana., 487 km from Antalya. and 348 km from Konya. away from the center of Mersin, which is a new and modern port cities şehridir.Büyük when railway transport and karayollarıyla, ships at foreign ports is related to time. Throughout the year there are regular ferry services between Famagusta and Mersin. Due to the modern city of Mersin, Mersin, Cappadocia, tourists and staying here, the Western Mediterranean and South Eastern Anatolia to Cyprus, to elect as the center.
Mersin, as well as the areas of trade and the economy in recent years, tourism has also made positive strides. Indeed, the "Sister City" with the increasing number of close interest to Mersin is the world's nations.
Sister Cities City of myrtle is connected to the world include:Fee 1-ABD/Californiya-Santa Springs (l965)2-İTALYA/Rimini (1980)3-Japonya/Kushimoto (1997)
The limits of the city center of Mersin, in the east Tırmıl Hill, and the tumuli of the west is Yumuktepe. These mounds, Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods before the establishment of Mersin, prove that the settlements in this area. As a result of the excavations made by J. Garstang Yumuktepe is the most dense settlement in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, if it did excavation work resumed in 1993, it built during the Byzantine period and continued in the order shown that the Arab invasions.
In the ancient time, there are data showing that the settlement of a seafront Mersin. C. Writes that the ancient city of Mersin Zephyrium Texier. Cavuslu District Community Center and near the excavations uncovered the basic history of the city finds a random leads to the ancient period. XIX of the ancient ruins of the city. Century, was also observed by travelers from Mersin. Mersin there is little information about the Middle Ages. This period is known particularly as an important center of Tarsus. This city is one of the pilgrimage cities of Christianity, frequently changed hands between the Byzantine and Muslim Arabs.
Which has existed in the vicinity of the city's Anatolian Seljuk Era "Mersin" a settlement named XIX. century until the mention of seyyahlarına.
Although Mersin Yumuktepe and Zephyrium settle, but 19 In the process of development in the mid-century and became the center of the province of Icel. Sources, the name of the Mersin Mersin Mersin sons tribe or tree that grows abundantly in the region being written.
150-year history here, different religions, cultures and people belonging to ethnic communities to live, the social cohesion that has occurred and is continuing. 1886 'in the United States, Germany, France, Great Britain, where the consulates of many countries such as Russia has become an important port city. I. Mersin's socio-economic structure of the major changes after World War II have been lost, and economic dynamism.
Mersin now lives in the second rapid urbanization. The modern port, free zone, with Industrial and Commercial Organizations İl'dir is a rapidly developing. Numerous Ancient Ruins, the sea, surrounded by citrus groves and the green nature of cultural activities and a major cultural and tourism potential.

MERSIN CHRONOLOGY

BC Neolithic Period 6000-5500
BC Chalcolithic Period 5500-3000
BC EBA 3000-2000
BC Middle Bronze Age 2000-1700
BC 1700-1200 Kizuvatna Kingdom
BC 1200-612 Kue Kingdom
BC The Kingdom of Persia 546-333
BC 301-101 Seleucid Era
BC 101 - Anno Domini-395 Roman
Anno Domini Byzantine 395-661
Anno Domini Some regions of the capture of 661 Muaviyenin Mersin.
Anno Domini The region 685-960 by the Byzantine and the Arabs to change hands frequently.
Anno Domini 960 to be dominated by the Byzantines to the region.
1082 Suleiman Shah to be the dominant region.
1124 Armenians captured Tarsus.
Anatolian Seljuq 1224.
Period Karamanids 1254.
Principality into the hands of Silifke 1357 Karamanids.
Gedik Ahmet Pasha in 1473 to Silifke take into Ottoman territory.
Participation in 1516 in Mersin and Tarsus Sized Walls of Ottoman rule.
1852 Mersin region to seize the Egyptian Ibrahim Pasha
Join the Mersin region of the Ottoman Empire 1859
December 17, 1918 in Mersin by the British occupation.
December 19, 1918 in Tarsus, the French occupation.
January 2, 1919 in Mersin, the French invasion
July 20, 1920 against the French War Bonds.
August 5, 1920 Pozanti Congress.
December 20, 1921 Ankara Agreement (Çukurova, the evacuation by the invaders.)
December 27, 1921 liberation from enemy occupation of Tarsus.
January 3 1922 in Mersin liberation from enemy occupation.
March 17, 1923 visit to Mersin Atatürk
Fact that 1924 in Mersin Province.
1933 Mersin in, İçel Silifke and merging with the County Center and County fact.
Icel Mersin's name changed to 2002.