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Sarıağaç
Sarıağaç is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Anamur, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 180 (2022). It is situated in the Toros Mountains, north of Anamur. It is planned that a part of the village (along with Akine, Çaltıbükü Çaltıbükü is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Anamur, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 110 (2022). It is situated in the valley of Dragon creek. The distance to Anamur is . It is planned that a part of the villag ... and Ormancık) will be submerged in Alaköprü Dam reservoir. References Neighbourhoods in Anamur District {{Mersin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Çaltıbükü
Çaltıbükü is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Anamur, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 110 (2022). It is situated in the valley of Dragon creek. The distance to Anamur is . It is planned that a part of the village (along with Akine, Sarıağaç and Ormancık) will be submerged in Alaköprü Dam reservoir. References Neighbourhoods in Anamur District {{Mersin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akine, Anamur
Akine is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Anamur, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 356 (2022). It is situated in the Taurus Mountains along Dragon Creek. Its distance to Anamur is . It is planned that a part of the village (along with Çaltıbükü Çaltıbükü is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Anamur, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 110 (2022). It is situated in the valley of Dragon creek. The distance to Anamur is . It is planned that a part of the villag ..., Ormancık and Sarıağaç) will be submerged in Alaköprü Dam reservoir. References Neighbourhoods in Anamur District {{Mersin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ormancık, Anamur
Ormancık is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Anamur, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 410 (2022). It is situated in the forests of Toros Mountains to the east of Dragon creek. Its distance to Anamur is . It is planned that a part of the village (along with Akine, Çaltıbükü and Sarıağaç Sarıağaç is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Anamur, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 180 (2022). It is situated in the Toros Mountains, north of Anamur. It is planned that a part of the village (along with Aki ...) will be submerged in Alaköprü Dam reservoir. References Neighbourhoods in Anamur District {{Mersin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaköprü Dam
Alaköprü Dam ( tr, Alaköprü Barajı) is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Anamur (Dragon) Creek in Anamur district of Mersin Province, southern Turkey. The development is backed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works (DSİ). The dam was primarily built as part of the Northern Cyprus Water Supply Project, to supply water for drinking and irrigation to Northern Cyprus. Preliminary construction on the dam began on November 2, 2010 and the official groundbreaking took place on March 7, 2011. After the completion of the long diversion tunnel, construction of the dam started on August 9, 2012 with placement of the foundation. The dam was completed on schedule, on March 7, 2014 but its reservoir did not begin to collect water until February 2015. The dam's 26 MW hydroelectric power station is expected to be commissioned in 2015. Up to water from the dam's reservoir, which makes more than half of its capacity, will be transferred to Geçitköy Dam in Northern Cyprus via an p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anamur
Anamur is a town and district in Mersin Province, Turkey, the westernmost district of that province, bordering on Antalya Province. Anamur contains Anatolia's southernmost point, It is a coastal resort known for its bananas and peanuts. Etymology Anamur has mutated from the Ancient Greek "Anemourion" (), Latinized as "Anemurium", meaning "windmill". Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus project History Founded by the , was then occupied by the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mersin Province
Mersin Province ( tr, ), formerly İçel Province ( tr, ), is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital and the biggest city in the province is Mersin, which is composed of four municipalities and district governorates: Akdeniz, Mezitli, Toroslar and Yenişehir. Next largest is Tarsus, the birthplace of Paul the Apostle. The province is considered to be a part of the geographical, economical and cultural region of Çukurova, which covers the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye and Hatay. The capital of the province is the city of Mersin. Etymology The province is named after its biggest city Mersin. Mersin was named after the aromatic plant genus ''Myrsine'' ( el, Μυρσίνη, tr, mersin) in the family Primulaceae, a myrtle that grows in abundance in the area. The 17th-century Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi has recorded in his ''Seyahatnâme'' that there was also a clan named Mersinoğulları in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a East Thrace, small portion on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is located off the south coast. Turkish people, Turks form the vast majority of the nation's population and Kurds are the largest minority. Ankara is Turkey's capital, while Istanbul is its list of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city and financial centre. One of the world's earliest permanently Settler, settled regions, present-day Turkey was home to important Neol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TÜİK
Turkish Statistical Institute (commonly known as TurkStat; tr, Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu or TÜİK) is the Turkish government agency commissioned with producing official statistics on Turkey, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It was founded in 1926 and has its headquarters in Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki .... Formerly named as the State Institute of Statistics (Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü (DİE)), the Institute was renamed as the Turkish Statistical Institute on November 18, 2005. References External linksOfficial website of the institute National statistical services Statistical Organizations established in 1926 Organizations based in Ankara {{Sci-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toros Mountains
The Taurus Mountains (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Toros Dağları'' or ''Toroslar'') are a mountain range, mountain complex in southern Turkey, separating the Mediterranean Region, Turkey, Mediterranean coastal region from the central Anatolia#Anatolian plateau, Anatolian Plateau. The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the east. It is a part of the Alpide belt in Eurasia. Etymology The mountain range under the current name was mentioned in The Histories (Polybius), ''The Histories'' by Polybius as Ταῦρος (''Taûros''). Heinrich Kiepert writes in ''Lehrbuch der alten Geographie'' that the name was borrowed into Ancient Greek from the Semitic languages, Semitic (Old Aramaic) root טורא ''ṭūrā'', meaning "mountain". Geography The Taurus mountains are divided into three chains from west to east as follows; * Western Taurus (Batı Toroslar) *Central Taurus (Orta Toroslar) *Southeaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
