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AH84
Asian Highway 84 (AH84) is a road in the Asian Highway Network running 1074 km (667 miles) from Doğubeyazıt to Mersin, Turkey. The route is concurrent with European route E90 and European route E99. The route is as follows: Turkey * Road D975: Doğubeyazıt - Muradiye * Road D280: Muradiye - Erciş * Road D290: Erciş - Adilcevaz * Road D965: Adilcevaz - Baykan * Road D360: Baykan - Diyarbakır - Siverek * Road D885: Siverek - Şanlıurfa * Otoyol 52: Şanlıurfa - Gaziantep - Toprakkale - Adana **''Branch'' Otoyol 53: Toprakkale - Iskenderun * Otoyol 50: Adana * Otoyol 51: Adana - Mersin Mersin (), also known as İçel, is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Mersin Province, Mersin (İçel) Province. It is made up of four municipalities and dis ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Ah84 Asian Highway Network Roads in Turkey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Highway Network
The Asian Highway Network (AH), also known as the Great Asian Highway, is a cooperative project among countries in Asia and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to improve their connectivity via highway systems. It is one of the three pillars of the Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development (ALTID) project, endorsed by the ESCAP commission at its 48th session in 1992, comprising Asian Highway, Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) and facilitation of land transport projects. Agreements have been signed by 32 countries to allow the highway to cross the continent and also reach to Europe. Some of the countries taking part in the highway project are India ( Look-East connectivity projects), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, China, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Nepal and Bangladesh. Most of the funding comes from the larger, more advanced Asian nations such as China, South Korea and Singapore as well as international agencies such as the Asian Development Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otoyol 52
Otoyol 52 ( en, Motorway 52), abbreviated as O-52, Adana-Şanlıurfa Otoyolu ( en, Adana-Şanlıurfa Motorway), is a toll motorway in the regions of Mediterranean and Southeastern Anatolia in Turkey, connecting the cities Adana and Şanlıurfa. The motorway is part of European route E90 and Asian Highway 84. The O-52 starts from the eastern terminus of The O-51, runs eastward through Osmaniye, Gaziantep and terminates east of Şanlıurfa. The O-52 is currently the second longest Motorway in Turkey being only 5 km shorter than the O-4. Exit list ''Light blue indicates toll section of motorway.'' See also * List of highways in Turkey The three types of intercity roads in Turkey • Motorways are controlled-access highways that are officially named ''Otoyol''. But it isn't uncommon that people in Turkey call them ''Otoban'' (referring to Autobahn) as this types of roads ent ... * Kızlaç Tunnel * Aslanlı Tunnel * Ayran Tunnel * Taşoluk Tunnel References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siverek
Siverek (from hy, Սեւավերակ, lit=black ruins, translit=Sevaverag, ku, Sêwreg) is a city and district in the south-east of Turkey, in Şanlıurfa Province. Population 107,634 (city); 247,000 (district) (2000 census). Siverek is in Şanlıurfa province but closer geographically to the large city of Diyarbakır (approx 83 km). History Siverek was historically known in medieval Arabic as Hisn ar-Ran, which was corrupted into Greek Chasanara ( gr, Χασαναρᾶ) as found in the Escorial Taktikon. The town came under Byzantine control sometime after 956 and by the early 970s had become the seat of a strategos. In the Ottoman Empire period Siverek was within the Diyarbekir vilayet, and it had several Christian settlements. Climate Siverek has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: ''Csa''). Politics In common with other districts of Şanlıurfa, business and politics in Siverek are strongly influenced, even controlled, by a powerful c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otoyol 50
Otoyol 50 ( en, Motorway 50), abbreviated as O-50, aka Adana Çevreyolu ( en, Adana Beltway), was the former designation for the long motorway passing through the city of Adana, Turkey. In the 2014 the KGM resigned the section of motorway west of the Seyhan River as the O-51 and the section west of the Seyhan River as O-52. Thus extending the O-52 and O-51 into central Adana. It started in the west of Adana at eastern terminus of Adana-Erdemli Motorway O-51, running north of the city, and ending northeast of Adana connecting to Adana-Şanlıurfa Motorway O-52. O-50 had a full length of . It was also a part of the European route E90 and the international Asian Highway 84. The Adana Beltway is still a toll-free motorway. See also * List of highways in Turkey * List of Motorways in Turkey Otoyol routes in Turkey follow a regional based two-digit numbering system. All routes have the prefix ''O'' on all signage and maps. Motorways that start in the Marmara Region are al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O50-TR Sign
O5 or O-5 may refer to: * The "Outreach 5", emerging economies in the Heiligendamm Process: China, Mexico, India, Brazil and South Africa * A symbol for the anti-Nazi Austrian Resistance, where the 5 stands for E and OE is the abbreviation of Österreich * USS ''O-5'' (SS-66), a 1917 O-class submarine * HNLMS ''O 5'', a 1913 ''O 2'' class submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy * SM ''UC-99'', a U-boat renamed O-5 for Japanese service from 1920 to 1921 * Douglas World Cruiser, also designated as Douglas O-5 * De Havilland Canada Dash 7, also designated as De Havilland Canada O-5 * A subclass of the LNER Class O4, locomotive class * O-5, the pay grade for the following officer ranks in the U.S. uniformed services: ** Lieutenant colonel in the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force ** Commander in the Navy, Coast Guard, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps * Otoyol 5, a toll motorway in Turkey * The time-displaced X-Men, also called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otoyol 53
Otoyol 53 ( en, Motorway 53), abbreviated as O-53, also known as Ceyhan-İskenderun Otoyolu ( en, Ceyhan-İskenderun Motorway), is a toll motorway in Mediterranean Region, Turkey, connecting the Adana-Şanlıurfa Motorway O-52 with İskenderun. The motorway is part of international routes as European route E91 and Asian Highway 84. The O-53 starts from Ceyhan in Adana Province at the junction of O-52, runs southward to İskenderun South bypassing the city in the east. See also * List of highways in Turkey The three types of intercity roads in Turkey • Motorways are controlled-access highways that are officially named ''Otoyol''. But it isn't uncommon that people in Turkey call them ''Otoban'' (referring to Autobahn) as this types of roads ent ... References * Turkish General Directorate of Highways''Turkey road map.'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adana
Adana (; ; ) is a major city in southern Turkey. It is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the Mediterranean Sea. The administrative seat of Adana Province, Adana province, it has a population of 2.26 million. Adana lies in the heart of Cilicia, which was once one of the most important regions of the Classical antiquity, classical world. Home to six million people, Cilicia is an important agricultural area, owing to the large fertile plain of Çukurova. Twenty-first century Adana is a centre for regional trade, healthcare, and public and private services. Agriculture and logistics are important parts of the economy. Adana Şakirpaşa Airport is close to the city centre, and the town is connected to Tarsus and Mersin by TCDD Taşımacılık, TCDD train. Etymology One theory holds that the city name originates from a hypothetical Indo-European languages, Indo-European term; ''a danu'' ( en, on the river). Many river names in Europe were derived from the same Proto- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toprakkale, Osmaniye
Toprakkale is a town and district of Osmaniye Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. It is located at 10 km to the west of Osmaniye. Its name comes from an Abbasid castle near the city. The town is on a road and rail crossing, a natural intersection of routes between Adana, Hatay and Gaziantep. History The great fortress known as ''Toprakkale'' (Arabic: ''Tall Hamdūn''; Frankish: ''Thil Hamd(o)un''; Armenian: ''T‛il Hamtun'') was founded in the 8th century by the Abbasids. During the 12th century it was frequently captured by the Byzantines, Crusaders, and Armenians. In 1266 the Mamluk Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning " slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') ...s briefly seized the castle from its Armenian lord and in 1337 permanently removed it from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaziantep
Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approximately east of Adana and north of Aleppo, Syria. It is thought to be located on the site of ancient Antiochia ad Taurum, and is near ancient Zeugma. As of the 31/12/2021 last estimation, the Metropolitan Province was home to 2,130,432 inhabitants, of whom 1,775,904 lived in the metropolitan area made of two (out of three) urban districts of Şahinbey and Şehitkamil, as Oğuzeli is not conurbated. It is the sixth-most populous city in Turkey. Name Due to the city's contact with many ethnic groups and cultures throughout its history, the name of the city has many variants and alternatives, such as: *''Hantab'', ''Hamtab'', or ''Hatab'' as known by the Crusaders. *''Antab'' and its variants in vulgar Turkish and Armenian since 17th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
