Kerimler
Kerimler is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 183. It lies between Turkish state highway D.400 and Motorway O.51 both going from west to east in Çukurova.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 183 residents
- Description: village in Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey
- Also known as: “Kerimler, Tarsus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Seven Sleepers Cave.
Seven Sleepers Cave
Cave
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eshab-ı Kehf Cave, also known as Ashab-ı Kehf Cave or Seven Sleepers' Cave, is a show cave situated to the north of Tarsus, an ilçe in Mersin Province, Turkey. Seven Sleepers Cave is situated 3½ km northeast of Kerimler.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sayköy and Taşkuyu.
Sayköy
Village
Sayköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 421. It is situated in Çukurova. Çukurova Motorway is to the north and Turkish state highway D.400 is to the south of the village.
Taşkuyu
Village
Taşkuyu is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 392. It is close to Eshabıkehf, the cave of Seven Sleepers, which is considered a pilgrimage center by some.
Cilicia
Cilicia is an ancient region in the south of Turkey, along its eastern Mediterranean coast. Throughout the history the region has been much contested for as it forms the shortest land connection between Europe and the Levant, and therefore is very rich in historical sites.Kerimler
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.93567° or 36° 56′ 8″ northLongitude
34.77259° or 34° 46′ 21″ eastPopulation
183Elevation
165 metres (541 feet)Open location code
8G8PWQPF+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 2642215769OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
308112Wikidata ID
Q6393907
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Vietnamese—“Kerimler” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “Керимлер”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kerimler, Tarsus”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kerimler”
- Dutch: “Kerimler, Tarsus”
- Dutch: “Kerimler”
- German: “Kerimler”
- Irish: “Kerimler”
- Malay: “Kerimler, Tarsus”
- Malay: “Kerimler”
- Tatar: “Керимлер”
- Turkish: “Kerimler, Tarsus”
- Turkish: “Kerimler”
- Uzbek: “Kerimler”
- Vietnamese: “Kerimler, Tarsus”
- Vietnamese: “Kerimler”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kerimler”. Photo: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0.