Silifke
Silifke is a city in the Cilician Mountains of Turkey, though only 15 km from the Mediterranean coast. It has a few antiquities and a wetland bird reserve, but for most visitors it's simply a stop-over touring the coast or heading for the ferry to Northern Cyprus.
- Type: Town with 128,000 residents
- Description: district and town of Mersin, Turkey
- Also known as: “Distretto di Silifke”, “Salukiya”, “Selefke”, “Selefkeh”, “Seleucia”, “Seleucia di Isauria”, “Seleucia in Isauria”, “Seleucia Isauria”, “Selêucia Isáuria”, “Selêucia Isáurica”, “Seleucia na Cilícia”, “Seleucia sul Calicadno”, “Seleucia Trachea”, “Seleucia Tracheotis”, “Seleucia Traquea”, “Séleucie d’Isaurie”, “Seleukeia”, “Selevkia”, “Silifke (distritu)”, “Σιλιφκέ”, “سلوقية”, “قضاء سلوقية”, and “قضاء سليقية”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Castle of Silifke and Silifke Museum.
Saint Thekla
Church
Photo: Bocachete, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tosmurlu and Ulugöz.
Tosmurlu
Suburb
Tosmurlu is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silifke, Mersin Province, Turkey.
Ulugöz
Village
Ulugöz is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silifke, Mersin Province, Turkey.
Burunucu
Village
Burunucu is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silifke, Mersin Province, Turkey. Burunucu is situated 3½ km south of Silifke.
Silifke
- Categories: municipality and locality
- Location: Mersin Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.3778° or 36° 22′ 40″ north
Longitude
33.926° or 33° 55′ 34″ east
Population
128,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Open location code
8G8M9WHG+4C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Silifke” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سليقية”
- Arabic: “سيليفكى”
- Armenian: “Սելևկիա”
- Asturian: “Silifke”
- Azerbaijani: “Silifke”
- Catalan: “Silifke”
- Cebuano: “Silifke”
- Chechen: “Силифке”
- Chinese: “錫利夫凱”
- Chinese: “锡利夫凯”
- Czech: “Silifke”
- Danish: “Silifke”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sılıfka”
- Dutch: “Silifke”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيليفكى”
- Esperanto: “Silifke”
- French: “Silifke”
- Gagauz: “Silifke”
- Galician: “Silifke”
- German: “Silifke”
- Gilaki: “سيليفکه”
- Greek: “Σελεύκεια Ισαυρίας”
- Greek: “Σελεύκεια”
- Hebrew: “סיליפקה”
- Hungarian: “Silifke”
- Irish: “Silifke”
- Italian: “Silifke”
- Japanese: “シリフケ”
- Kazakh: “Sïlïfke”
- Kazakh: “Силифке”
- Kazakh: “سىيلىيفكە”
- Korean: “실리프케”
- Kurdish: “Silifke”
- Latin: “Seleucia ad Calycadnum”
- Lithuanian: “Silifkė”
- Luxembourgish: “Silifke”
- Malay: “Silifke”
- Mazanderani: “سیلیفکه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Silifke”
- Minangkabau: “Silifke”
- Moksha: “Силифкэ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Silifke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silifke”
- Norwegian: “Silifke”
- Ossetian: “Силифке”
- Persian: “سلوکیه”
- Polish: “Silifke”
- Portuguese: “Silifke”
- Romanian: “Silifke”
- Russian: “Силифке”
- Serbian: “Силифке”
- Silesian: “Silifke”
- Slovenian: “Silifke”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیلیفکه”
- Spanish: “Silifke”
- Swahili: “Silifke”
- Swedish: “Silifke”
- Tagalog: “Silifke”
- Tatar: “Силифке”
- Turkish: “Silifke”
- Ukrainian: “Сіліфке”
- Urdu: “سیلیفکے”
- Vietnamese: “Silifke”
- Western Mari: “Силифке”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع سلیفکے”
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