 anamur is a town and district of the province of mersin, on the mediterranean coast of southern turkey, between antalya and the city of mersin. anamur is turkey's southernmost point, a coastal resort famous for its bananas and peanuts. ==etymology== anamur has mutated from the ancient greek "anemourion" (), latinized as "anemurium", meaning "windmill".á¼Î½ÎµÎ¼Î¿ÏÏÎ¹Î¿Î½, henry george liddell, robert scott, a greek-english lexicon, on perseus project ==history==  founded by the phoenicians, anemurium was then occupied by the assyrians and hittites. during the hittite period in the twelfth century b.c., the ruler tuthalia iv, granted anemurium to mattuvata who had taken refuge in his kingdom. mattuvata took advantage of the hittitesâ weakness, establishing his own kingdom with anemurium as its capital. his rule extended as far as afyon, in central anatolia. at the end of the 12th century the area was occupied by a nomadic tribe that had come from across the caucasus mountains. the tribe was called by the ancient greeks the "wind people" (á¼Î½Î­Î¼Î¿Ï Î³Î­Î½Î¿Ï) after whom the city was named. the exact reasons behind this name are lost in time.the most probable explanation however, is that they worshiped a god of wind,perhaps similar to the greek aeolus, as their main deity. then the city came under the c
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