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 o 1,071,703 as o 2014.[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 | |
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Metropolitan Municipality | |
 Clockwise frae tap: 1.Catholic Kirk o Mersin, 2.Mertim Touer, 3.Peace Memorial, 4.Mersin Congress an Exhibition Center, 5.Servet Tazegül Sportshall which is uised in 2013 Mediterranean Gemmes. | |
  Mersin Location o Mersin within Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 36°48′N 34°38′E / 36.800°N 34.633°E 34°38′E / 36.800°N 34.633°E | |
| Kintra |  Turkey |
| Region | Mediterranean |
| Province | Mersin |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Macit Özcan (CHP) |
| Elevation | 10 m (30 ft) |
| Population (2014)[1] | |
| • Total | 955,106 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 33XXX |
| Area code(s) | (+90) 324 |
| Licence plate | 33 |
| Website | Mersin |
Mersin is important for Turkey's economy, an Turkey's biggest port is locatit here.
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]
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.
| Climate data for Mersin | |||||||||||||
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| 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) | 38.5 (101.3) |
| 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) | 23.3 (74.0) |
| Average law °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) | 15.5 (59.8) |
| Record law °C (°F) | −2.5 (27.5) | −3.0 (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) | −3.0 (26.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 106.2 (4.18) | 79.8 (3.14) | 51.9 (2.04) | 39.4 (1.55) | 24.8 (0.98) | 10.3 (0.41) | 13.2 (0.52) | 8.6 (0.34) | 10.7 (0.42) | 42.3 (1.67) | 84.5 (3.33) | 137.0 (5.39) | 608.7 (23.97) |
| Average 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 oors | 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
Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Mersin is twinned wi:
Kushimoto, Japan
Latakia, Sirie
Wast Palm Beach, Unitit States
Oberhausen, Germany
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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
References
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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