Yılankale
Yılankale is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ceyhan, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 234.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 206 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Ceyhan, Adana, south-central Turkey
- Also known as: “Levonkla”, “Yilankale”, and “Yılankale, Ceyhan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Snake Castle and Sirkeli Höyük.
Snake Castle
Photo: Kpisimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yılankale is a late 12th–13th century Armenian castle in Adana Province of Turkey. It is known in Armenian as Levonkla after its possible founder—King Leo I the Magnificent of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.
Sirkeli Höyük
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Sirkeli Höyük is one of the largest tells of Cilicia with an area of approximately 80 ha. It is 40 kilometers east of the city of Adana, northwest of the village Sirkeli in the district of Ceyhan, at the breakthrough of the Ceyhan through the Misis Mountains.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Küçükburhaniye and Toktamış.
Küçükburhaniye
Village
Küçükburhaniye is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ceyhan, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 97.
Toktamış
Village
Toktamış is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ceyhan, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 834.
Sirkeli
Village
Sirkeli is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ceyhan, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 383. It is the site of the tell of Sirkeli Höyük.
Yılankale
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Ceyhan, Adana Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.01771° or 37° 1′ 4″ northLongitude
35.75692° or 35° 45′ 25″ eastPopulation
206Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)Open location code
8G9Q2Q94+3QOpenStreetMap ID
node 1985700622OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
13133045Wikidata ID
Q8002111
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Yılankale” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Լևոնկլա”
- Chechen: “Йиланкале (ДжейхӀан)”
- Chechen: “Йиланкале”
- Chinese: “Yılankale”
- Dutch: “Yılankale”
- German: “Yılankale”
- Greek: “Γιλάνκαλε”
- Kurdish: “Yîlanqele”
- Malay: “Yılankale, Ceyhan”
- Malay: “Yılankale”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yılankale”
- Persian: “ییلانقلعه (جیحان)”
- Persian: “ییلانقلعه”
- Tatar: “Еланкале (Җейһан)”
- Tatar: “Еланкале”
- Turkish: “Yılankale, Ceyhan”
- Turkish: “Yılankale”
- Urdu: “ییلنکالے، کے ہاں”
- Uzbek: “Yılankale”
- Vietnamese: “Yılankale, Ceyhan”
- Vietnamese: “Yılankale”
- “Yılankale”
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