18 Facts About Tarsus Mersin

Tarsus Mersin has a long history of commerce, and is still a commercial centre today, trading in the produce of the fertile Cukurova plain; Tarsus Mersin is a thriving industrial centre of refining and processing that produces some for export.

Tarsus Mersin has one of the most famous and important highschools of Turkey which is Tarsus Mersin American College, known as TAC as well.

Tarsus Mersin is first mentioned in the historical record in Akkadian texts of the Neo-Assyrian era as, and in the Hebrew Bible as Tarshish.

Excavation of the mound of Gozlukule reveals that the prehistoric development of Tarsus Mersin reaches back to the Neolithic Period and continues unbroken through Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Ages.

Much of this legend of the foundation of Tarsus Mersin appeared in the Roman era, and none of it is reliable.

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The geographer Strabo states that Tarsus Mersin was founded by people from Argos who were exploring this coast.

Later the coinage of Tarsus Mersin bore the image of Hercules, due to yet another tale in which the hero was held prisoner here by the local god Sandon.

Tarsus Mersin has been suggested as a possible identification of the biblical Tarshish, where the prophet Jonah wanted to flee, but Tartessos in Spain has been offered as an identification for this.

Tarsus Mersin was later eclipsed by nearby Adana, but remained important as a port and shipyard.

Tarsus Mersin was the city where, according to the Acts of the Apostles, "Saul of Tarsus Mersin" was born, but he was "brought up" in Jerusalem.

About eight years later, Barnabas retrieved him from Tarsus Mersin to help with the work of preaching and teaching in Syrian Antioch.

Cave in Tarsus Mersin is one of a number of places said to be the location of the legend of the Seven Sleepers, common to Christianity and Islam.

Tarsus Mersin was the metropolitan see of the province of Cilicia Prima, under the Patriarchate of Antioch.

Tarsus Mersin is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees as a metropolitan see of both the Latin, the Maronite and the Melkite Catholic Church.

Tarsus Mersin was apparently recovered by the Byzantines soon after, at some point at the turn of the century.

Henceforth and until the Byzantine reconquest in the 10th century, Tarsus Mersin was one of the main centres for the holy war against Byzantium, comprising annual raids into Byzantine lands through the Cilician Gates when the mountain snows had melted and passage was possible.

At this point Tarsus Mersin was a typical Ottoman city with communities of Muslim Turks, Christian Greeks and Armenians.

Tarsus Mersin is home to numerous ancient sites, with many in need of restoration and research.