Turkmenuşağı

Turkmenuşağı
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Mersin
District ( ilçe ) :	Silifke
Coordinates :	36 ° 27 '  N , 34 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 36 ° 26 '52 "  N , 34 ° 2' 37"  E
Height :	387  m
Residents :	74 (2019)
Telephone code :	(+90) 324
Postal code :	33940
License plate :	33
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Muhtar :	Harun Kılbıyık

Türkmenuşağı is a hamlet in the Silifke district of the Turkish province of Mersin . Until 2012, Türkmenuşağı was a village with 84 inhabitants at last and then became part of the district center Silifke after a regional reform . The place is about eight kilometers north of the center of Silifke and 60 kilometers southwest of the provincial capital Mersin . It is located near the road that leads from Atakent on the Mediterranean through the mountainous hinterland, past the ancient ruins of Paslı and Tekkadın , via Ovacık and Keşlitürkmenli to Uzuncaburç , the ancient Diokaisareia . In ancient times the place belonged to the Rough Cilicia .

Ancient settlement

In the extensive area of ​​the district lie the ruins of a settlement ( 36 ° 27 '9.1 ″  N , 34 ° 1 ′ 47.3 ″  E ), which was inhabited in the late Hellenistic , Roman and early Byzantine periods . It was on a low knoll on the road that connected Korasion (Atakent) with the settlement near Gökburç . Remnants of walls from around 30 houses have been preserved, both in small cuboid and in polygonal masonry . You can also see cisterns, there are no traces of a church. To the north of the local area is the Roman temple tomb called Mezgit Kalesi .

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  House ruin

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  Polygonal masonry

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  cistern

literature

• Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Friedrich Hild: New research in Kilikien. Publications of the commission for the Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 4. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7001-0771-4 , p. 451.
• Friedrich Hild , Hansgerd Hellenkemper : Kilikien and Isaurien. Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 5. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1811-2 , p. 55.

Web links

Commons : Türkmenuşağı  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nufusu.com
2. ^ Website Silifke
3. ↑ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )