Bozyazı
Bozyazı is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 642 km2, and its population is 26,812. It is on the Mediterranean coast, 220 km west of the city of Mersin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 26,900 residents
- Description: district of Mersin, south-central Turkey
- Also known as: “Bozyazi” and “Bozyazı district”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nagidos and Bozyazı Island.
Nagidos
Hill
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nagidos was an ancient city of Cilicia. In ancient times it was located between Anemurion to the west and Arsinoe to the east. Today its ruins are found on the hill named Paşabeleni at the mouth of the Sini Cay near Bozyazı in Mersin Province, Turkey.
Bozyazı Island
Islet
Bozyazı Island is a small Mediterranean island in Turkey. The island faces Bozyazı ilçe of Mersin Province at. Its distance to shore is only 200 metres and in 1982 a road was constructed between the main land and the island by embankment.
Softa Castle
Photo: Isabeau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Softa Castle is a ruined castle in Bozyazı ilçe of Mersin Province, Turkey. Softa Castle is situated 4 km east of Bozyazı.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karaisalı and Tekedüzü.
Karaisalı
Village
Karaisalı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Bozyazı, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,153. It is at the north east of Bozyazı and has almost merged with Bozyazı. Karaisalı is situated 3½ km northeast of Bozyazı.
Tekedüzü
Village
Tekedüzü is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Bozyazı, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 35. It is situated to the northeast of Bozyazı. Tekedüzü is situated 5 km northeast of Bozyazı.
Narince
Village
Narince is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Bozyazı, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 479. It is situated to the northwest of Bozyazı. The distance to Bozyazı is 6 kilometres and the distance to Mersin is 205 kilometres. Narince is situated 6 km northwest of Bozyazı.
Bozyazı
- Categories: district of Turkey and locality
- Location: Bozyazı İlçesi, Mersin Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.10482° or 36° 6′ 17″ northLongitude
32.97429° or 32° 58′ 27″ eastPopulation
26,900Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
8G8J4X3F+WPOpenStreetMap ID
node 8629473098OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
320552Wikidata ID
Q896218
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bozyazı” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بزياز”
- Arabic: “بُزْيَازُ”
- Arabic: “قضاء بزياز”
- Asturian: “Bozyazı (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Bozyazı”
- Azerbaijani: “Bozyazı”
- Cebuano: “Bozyazı İlçesi”
- Chechen: “Бозйази”
- Chinese: “Bozyazı”
- Chinese: “博兹亚泽”
- Chinese: “博茲亞澤”
- Czech: “Bozyazı”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bozyazı”
- Dutch: “Bozyazı”
- Esperanto: “Bozyazı”
- French: “Bozyazı”
- Gagauz: “Bozyazı”
- German: “Bozyazı”
- Gilaki: “بؤزیازي”
- Greek: “Νάγιδος” (historical)
- Irish: “Bozyazı”
- Italian: “Distretto di Bozyazı”
- Kurdish: “Bozyazı”
- Malay: “Bozyazı”
- Mazanderani: “بوزیازی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bozyazı”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bozyazı”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bozyazı”
- Norwegian: “Bozyazı”
- Persian: “بوزیازی”
- Polish: “Bozyazı”
- Romanian: “Bozyazı”
- Russian: “Бозязы”
- Serbian: “Бозјази”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوزیازی”
- Swahili: “Bozyazı”
- Tatar: “Бозьязы (Бозьязи)”
- Tatar: “Бозьязы”
- Turkish: “Bozyazı, Mersin”
- Turkish: “Bozyazı”
- Urdu: “بوزیازی”
- Vietnamese: “Bozyazı”
- Western Mari: “Бозязы”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع بوزیازی”
- “Bozyazı ilçesi”
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