Ballıca is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of
Tarsus,
Mersin Province,
Turkey. Its population is 156 (2022). It is situated in the plains of
Çukurova
Çukurova () or the Cilician Plain (''Cilicia Pedias'' in antiquity), is a large fertile plain in the Cilicia region of southern Turkey. The plain covers the easternmost areas of Mersin Province, southern and central Adana Province, western Osman ...
(
Cilicia
Cilicia (); el, Κιλικία, ''Kilikía''; Middle Persian: ''klkyʾy'' (''Klikiyā''); Parthian: ''kylkyʾ'' (''Kilikiyā''); tr, Kilikya). is a geographical region in southern Anatolia in Turkey, extending inland from the northeastern coas ...
of the antiquity). Its distance to Tarsus is and its distance to
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 ...
is .
There are
tumuli of ancient ages around the village, but the modern village was founded in 1730 by
Yörüks (once-nomadic
Turkmen
Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to:
Peoples Historical ethnonym
* Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages
Ethnic groups
* Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish desc ...
). During the brief occupation by
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt in the 19th century, cotton farming was introduced to the village. After the village was returned to the
Ottoman Empire, Turkmen from
Elazığ were settled in the village to work in cotton fields. After irrigation facilities were improved during the republican era after 1923, cotton production increased.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ballica, Tarsus
Neighbourhoods in Tarsus District