Dorak
Dorak is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 207. It is situated in the Taurus Mountains, 37 kilometres away from Tarsus and 65 kilometres away from Mersin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 207 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Tarsus, Mersin, south-central Turkey
- Also known as: “Dorak, Tarsus” and “Durak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Çandır Castle.
Çandır Castle
Castle
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Çandır Castle the medieval Armenian site of Paperon, is a fortification in Mersin Province, Turkey. Çandır Castle is situated 3½ km west of Dorak.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tepetaşpınar and Kaklıktaşı.
Tepetaşpınar
Village
Tepetaşpınar is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 192. It lies in the Toros Mountains, 40 kilometres away from Tarsus and 60 kilometres away from Mersin.
Kaklıktaşı
Village
Kaklıktaşı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 297. It is situated in the Taurus Mountains.
Şahinpınarı
Village
Şahinpınarı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Toroslar, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 123. It is situated in Toros Mountains. The distance to Mersin city center is 36 kilometres.
Dorak
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.02477° or 37° 1′ 29″ northLongitude
34.65329° or 34° 39′ 12″ eastPopulation
207Elevation
725 metres (2,379 feet)Open location code
8G9P2MF3+W8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1490570274OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
316293Wikidata ID
Q5297495
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Vietnamese—“Dorak” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “Дорак”
- Dimli (individual language): “Dorak, Tarsus”
- Dimli (individual language): “Dorak”
- Dutch: “Dorak”
- Irish: “Dorak”
- Malay: “Dorak, Tarsus”
- Malay: “Dorak”
- Tatar: “Дорак”
- Turkish: “Dorak, Tarsus”
- Turkish: “Dorak”
- Uzbek: “Dorak”
- Vietnamese: “Dorak, Tarsus”
- Vietnamese: “Dorak”
- “Dorak”
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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 “Dorak”. Photo: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0.