Ermenek
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| Province (il) : | Karaman | |||
| Coordinates : | 36 ° 38 ' N , 32 ° 54' E | |||
| Height : | 1200 m | |||
| Residents : | 11,274 (2018) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 338 | |||
| Postal code : | 70 400 | |||
| License plate : | 70 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 16 mahall | |||
| Mayor : | Atila Zorlu (İYİ Parti) | |||
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| Ermenek district | ||||
| Residents : | 28,832 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 1,242 km² | |||
| Population density : | 23 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Mehmet Demir | |||
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Ermenek , formerly Germanicopolis , is a Turkish city in the province of Karaman and a district of the same name. It is located in the southwest of the Karaman Province and borders the Mersin Province . 40% of the district population is united in the district town. In addition to the district town of Ermenek ( Merkez ), there are the cities ( Belediye ) Güneyyurt (5,051) and Kazancı (2,513 inhabitants) and 26 villages ( Köy ) of which only Ardiçkaya has more than 1,000 inhabitants.
The city of Ermenek has 11,274 inhabitants and the district 28,832 (as of the end of 2018). Ermenek lies at an altitude of about 1200 m in the Taurus Mountains . The Ermenek Dam was built in 2009 at the confluence of two tributaries of the Göksu , the Ermenek Çayı and Küçük Çayı .
The city was part of the Isaurian landscape in ancient times and was named after the Roman general Germanicus . Ermenek was under Roman and later Byzantine rule. The name Germanicopolis changed afterwards among the Armenian rubenids in the 12th century. In Germanig . In 1228 the Turkish Rum Seljuks conquered under their ruler Kai Kobad I. Ermenek. After the fall of the Rum Seljuks, Ermenek became part of the Karaman principality . The name changed over time from Germanig to Ermenek. In the 15th century the Karaman were defeated by the Ottomans and Ermenek became part of the Ottoman Empire. This remained so until 1923. Ermenek has been part of Turkey since then.
Ermenek's rock relief , which Kurt Bittel interpreted as possibly Hittite , was found on the Bezciler hill south of the city in 1939 . It is believed to have been destroyed today.
On October 28, 1994, parts of a pit collapsed at a depth of more than 300 meters and were flooded. Around 11,000 cubic meters of water penetrated the shaft. Ten miners died and eight were rescued.
Personalities
- Rifat Orhan Göksu (1901–1988), Turkish lawyer and Vice-President of the Constitutional Court from 1965 to 1966
- Fikret Ünlü (1943–2019), Turkish teacher, director and politician ( DSP )
- Emin Alper (* 1974), Turkish director
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Nufusune.com , accessed April 15, 2019
- ↑ Eberhard P. Rossner: Rock monuments in Turkey. Volume 1: The Hittite rock reliefs in Turkey. An archaeological guide. 2nd, expanded edition, Rossner, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-924390-02-9 , pp. 233-234.
- ↑ Ermenek on hittitemonuments.com
