Courage (Mersin)
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 Fortress of Courage |
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Mersin | |||
| Coordinates : | 36 ° 38 ' N , 33 ° 26' E | |||
| Residents : | 29,477 (2008) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 324 | |||
| Postal code : | 33600 | |||
| License plate : | 33 | |||
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| Mayor : | Nebi Yilmaz ( MHP ) | |||
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| Courage district | ||||
| Residents : | 64,602 (2008) | |||
| Surface: | 2,518 km² | |||
| Population density : | 26 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Mustafa Sahin | |||
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Mut is a city and a district in the Turkish province of Mersin . The city has 29,477 inhabitants and the entire district 64,602 (as of 2008)
Mut is a quiet and rural area at the foot of the Sertavul Pass on the way from Ankara and Konya over the Taurus Mountains to the Mediterranean near Anamur and Silifke . Mut is known for its variant of the apricot - the Mut Şekerparesi. At the entrance to the city there is a statue of a girl carrying a basket. The summer weather is hot and people move to the higher elevations of the mountains. The forests there are home to wild boars , and the Gezende reservoir on the Ermenek River is a welcome change in this arid district. The dam owns a hydropower plant that was built in Romania.
history
The area has probably been inhabited since the time of the Hittites and was then part of ancient Cilicia . At the time of the Roman Empire , the city of Claudiopolis lay with Mut . The Romans were followed by the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia . In the 13th century, the Turkish Karamanids followed, who founded the Karaman principality .
Courage claims, like other places in the area, to house the grave of the folk poet Karacaoğlan.
Attractions
The Byzantine fortress Mut Kalesi stands above the city . It was expanded by the Karamanids in the 14th century. Other buildings from the Karamanid period in Mut are the Laal Pascha Mosque , the Red Minaret (Turkish Kızılminare ) and the Hocendi Türbe , a tomb with a pyramid-shaped roof. About 20 kilometers southeast of Mut, near the road to Silifke, is the settlement hill Kilise Tepe , which was inhabited from the early Bronze Age through the Hittite to the Byzantine period.
Personalities
- Musa Eroğlu , singer
literature
- Marianne Mehling: Knaur's cultural guide: Turkey . Droemer Knaur Munich / Zurich 1987, p. 413, ISBN 3-426-26293-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed November 23, 2009
