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Toroslar is a municipality and district governorate in Greater Mersin

Mersin

-Mersin today:Today, Mersin is a large city spreading out along the coast, with Turkey's second tallest skyscraper , huge hotels, an opera house, expensive real estate near the sea or up in the hills, and many other modern urban...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. Mersin is one of 16 metropolitan centers in Turkey

Metropolitan centers in Turkey

This is a list of Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey. There are 81 provinces in Turkey . Among the 81 provincial centers 16 of them are called metropolitan municipalities . Within city borders of the metropolitan municipalities, there are more than one district governorate. where each...

with more than one municipality within city borders. Now in Mersin there are four intracity municipalities in addition of Greater Mersin (büyükşehir) municipality. The mayor of Toroslar is Hamit Tuna (member of MHP

Nationalist Movement Party

The Nationalist Movement Party , is a far-right political party in Turkey.In the 2002 general elections, the party had lost its 129 seats as it had won only 8.34% of the national vote...

, elected in 2009)).

History

Yumuktepe

Yumuktepe is a tumulus at within the city borders of Mersin, Turkey. In 1936 the tumulus was at the outskirts of Mersin. But after the rapid increase of population, now the tumulus is in the Toroslar municipality of Mersin....

, the ruins of one of the earliest human settlements in Anatolia

Anatolia

Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...

is in Toroslar. Excavations by John Garstang

John Garstang

John Garstang was a British archaeologist of the ancient Near East, especially Anatolia and the southern Levant....

and Seton Lloyd

Seton Lloyd

Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, CBE , was an English archaeologist. He was President of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara , Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology, University of London...

both of which were directors of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, revealed 23 levels of occupation, the earliest dating from ca. 6300 BC. The site however was abandoned during Byzantine Empire period. Modern settlement began in 19 th century. Originally a part of Mersin municipality, the municipality of Toroslar was established in 1993 and the corresponding district governorate was established in 2008.

Location

Toroslar composes the northern quarters of Mersin at about 36°49′N 34°37′E. The sister municipality of Akdeniz

Akdeniz (Mersin)

Akdeniz is a municipality and district governorate in Greater Mersin, Turkey. Mersin is one of the 16 metropolitan centers in Turkey with more than one municipality within city borders. Now in Mersin there are four intracity municipalities in addition to Greater Mersin municipality.- History...

lies in the south and the sister municipality of Yenişehir

Yenişehir (Mersin)

Yenişehir is a municipality and district governorate in Greater Mersin, Turkey. Mersin is one of the 16 metropolitan centers in Turkey with more than one municipality within city borders...

lies in the south west. Southern slopes of Toros mountains

Taurus Mountains

Taurus Mountains are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, dividing the Mediterranean coastal region of southern Turkey from the central Anatolian Plateau. The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the east...

lie in the North. .

Population

According to 2010 figures the population of Toroslar is 250.034. (124.665 male and 125.369 female citizens.) Approximately, % 30 of Mersin citizens live in Toroslar.

History

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