Mersin History
Mersin, which was called Cilicia in the classical period; Hittites, Phrygians, Assyrians, Persians, Macedonians, Romans and Byzantines respectively, XI. century Seljuks, XIV. XV. of Karamanoğulları and Ramazanoğulları in the XV century. In the 19th century, it was dominated by the Ottoman Empire.
_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf It is understood to be a settlement center. In the excavation initiated by Liverpool University Archaeologists in Yumuktepe, the city center of which is in Mersin, at 1937; "Neolithic Age" was determined as the lowest layer. The continuation of the excavations showed that this region made a transition between the Mine Age and the Bronze Age after the Neolithic period. The ruins in Yumuktepe are almost the same as in Gözekule in Tarsus.
It is seen that Etiler reigned in the region for a while. Eti King Hattusil reconstructed and rehabilitated the region. Then the Assyrian king III. The Mersin region, which was captured by Salomossa, passed to the Iranian Sovereignty in 528 BC, and the Greeks seized the region and Cyprus in 527 BC. In 334 BC, the region passed into the hands of the Macedonians with Alexander the Great.
In 261-246 BC, the Egyptian ruler Batlenios Ogustos captured the region. Mersin, which was conquered by the Romans in the 70s BC, remains within the Eastern Roman territory after the Roman Empire split into two.
_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b- _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ . Later, after the caliphate passed to the Abbasids in 718, Sultan Mahdi added the region to the Abbasids in 853. Later, the region, which was captured by the Seljuks, suffered a partial "Crusader Invasion" during this period and passed to the Karamanoğulları after the Seljuks weakened.
_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf 58d_ Ottoman Empire came under Ottoman rule during the time of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid Mersin, which was invaded by the Allied Powers in the First World War, came under Turkish rule again on January 3, 1922 with the National Struggle. In 1924, it became a province with the name of Mersin, and in 1933 it was merged with Mersin İçel and took the name İçel. 28 In the Official Gazette dated June 2002 with the Law No. 4764, the name of the province became Mersin again.
XII. In the 19th century, the Turks called the region on both sides of the Göksu river "İÇEL". It is thought that the Seljuks named the region as such because it is a difficult place to enter and see through the mountains.
_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5c are widely accepted as different origins of the two origins of Mersinf. The first of these is that the region was named Mersin because of the Myrtus-Myrtle tree, which the Arabs call Hambales, which grows in the vicinity and is an introductory plant of the Mediterranean climate.
The second is the view that accepts that the name Mersin comes from a Turkmen family named "Mersinoğulları or Mersinoğlu" living in this region. Evliya Çelebi also stated in his travel book that there were seventy married Turkmen families in the region and that the name of this family was Mersinoğlu. According to another view, the name Mersin does not originate from a plant, but from the tribe named Mersinoğlu living in the region. It is possible to come across the name of Mersin in various regions of Anatolia. For example; The villages named Mersin, Mersinlik in İzmir, Ordu and Trabzon are a few of them.
