Mersin

Mersin (, Auncient Greek: Ζεφύριον, Zephyrion) is a lairge ceety an a busy port on the Mediterranean coast o soouthren Turkey. The metropolitan aurie in the entire Mersin Province haed a population o 1,071,703 as o 2014. makin it Turkey's tent maist muckle ceety. It is an aw pairt o an interurban agglomeration - Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Aurie an lies on the wast pairt o Çukurova, a geographical, economical an cultural region. 

Mersin is important for Turkey's economy, an Turkey's biggest port is locatit here. 

Etymology
Accordin tae Evliya Çelebi, the ceety is named efter the Mersinoğullari tribe; anither theory is that it is derived frae the myrtle () which grows abundantly in the region.İçel: Mersin- Tarsus- Çamlıyayla- Erdemli- Silifke- Aydıncık- Bozyazı- Anamur- Gülnar- Mut (Kültür, Turizm ve Tanıtım yayınları, 1992), p. 7.

Climate
Mersin haes a typical Mediterranean climate wi hot an dry simmers an ceul an wet winters. Mersin haes its heichest rainfaw in winter; mainly December an Januar which gives Mersin its healthy, nurtured coastline. The driest months are simmer wi hardly ony rainfaw at aw.   

Internaitional relations

Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Mersin is twinned wi:

26px Kushimoto, Japan
26px Latakia, Sirie
26px Wast Palm Beach, Unitit States
26px Oberhausen, Germany

See an aw
 Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Aurie
 Çukurova
 Akdeniz, interceety municipality o Mersin
 Mezitli, interceety municipality o Mersin
 Toroslar, interceety municipality o Mersin
 Yenişehir, interceety municipality o Mersin
 Cilicie War
 Gözne
 Soli, Cilicie
 Yumuktepe
 Kazanlı
 Chronology o the Turkis War o Unthirldom
 Leet o mayors o Mersin
 Mersin İdmanyurdu, fitbaa team o the ceety
 Gulf o Mersin
 Mersin Grand Mosque
 Mersin Harbor
 Mersin railway station
 Mersin Halkevi
 Mertim
 Mersin Feneri
 Muğdat Mosque
 Atatürk Parkı

References
Notes

 Blue Guide, Turkey, The Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts (ISBN 0-393-30489-2), pp. 556–557.
 Blood-Dark Track: A Family History (Granta Books) by Joseph O'Neill, contains a detailed and evocative history of the city, viewed from the perspective of a Christian Syrian family long resident in Mersin.
 Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), p. 66

Freemit airtns

 Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
 Catholic Encyclopedia "Zephyrium"

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