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Turkey
Mersin Province

Tarsus

Tarsus is a city on the Çukurova or of Mediterranean Turkey, with a population of 631,000 in 2022. It's modern and industrial, hosting the regional airport, but with a few antiquities.
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  • Type: Town with 347,000 residents
  • Description: district and town in Mersin, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Antiochia ad Cydnum”, “Tarsous”, and “Tarsus, Mersin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St. Paul and Ancient Road.

Church
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, GFDL.
Saint Paul's Church is a former church in Tarsus, , .

Archaeological site
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
at is the unearthed section of an in the historical city of Tarsus, . Tarsus, an ancient city known as the birthplace of Paul the Apostle, is now a major district center in , Turkey.

Mosque
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church Mosque or Old Mosque is a converted from a historic church that was built in 1102. It is located in Tarsus ilçe of , southern Turkey.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bolatlı and Aliefendioğlu.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, , . Its population is 1,780. It is situated in the plain along the and south of the Çukurova motorway. is situated 3½ km north of Tarsus.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, , . Its population is 930. It is situated in plains to the south of Tarsus. is situated 4 km south of Tarsus.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, , . Its population is 337. It is situated in and to the south of Tarsus. It is almost merged with Tarsus. Its distance to is about 30 kilometres. is situated 4 km southeast of Tarsus.

Tarsus

Latitude
36.9165° or 36° 54′ 59″ north
Longitude
34.8951° or 34° 53′ 43″ east
Population
347,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR TAR
Open location code
8G8PWV8W+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 173106356
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
299817
Wiki­data ID
Q134287
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Tarsus” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Tarsusi”
  • Arabic: “طرسوس”
  • Arabic: “طَرَسُوسُ”
  • Arabic: “قضاء طرسوس”
  • Armenian: “Տարսոն”
  • Asturian: “Tarsus”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tarsus”
  • Bashkir: “Тарс”
  • Bashkir: “Тарсус”
  • Basque: “Tarso”
  • Basque: “Tarsos”
  • Basque: “Tartso”
  • Belarusian: “Тарс”
  • Belarusian: “Тарсус”
  • Breton: “Tars”
  • Breton: “Tarsos”
  • Breton: “Tarsus”
  • Bulgarian: “Тарс”
  • Bulgarian: “Тарсус”
  • Catalan: “Antioquia del Cidnos”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Tars”
  • Catalan: “Tars”
  • Catalan: “Tarse”
  • Cebuano: “Tarsus (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Tarsus”
  • Central Kurdish: “تارسوس”
  • Chechen: “Тарсус”
  • Chinese: “Tarsus”
  • Chinese: “塔尔苏斯”
  • Chinese: “塔爾索”
  • Chinese: “塔爾蘇斯”
  • Chinese: “大數”
  • Czech: “Tars”
  • Czech: “Tarsos”
  • Czech: “Tarsus”
  • Danish: “Tarsus”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tarsus”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tersus”
  • Dutch: “Tarsus (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Tarsus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طرسوس”
  • Esperanto: “Tars”
  • Esperanto: “Tarso”
  • Esperanto: “Tarsos”
  • Esperanto: “Tarsus”
  • Finnish: “Tarsos”
  • French: “Tarse en Cilicie”
  • French: “Tarse”
  • French: “Tarsus”
  • French: “Ville de Tarse”
  • Gagauz: “Tarsus”
  • Galician: “Tarso”
  • Georgian: “თარსუსი”
  • German: “Tarsos”
  • German: “Tarsus”
  • Gilaki: “طرسۊس”
  • Greek: “Αντιόχεια”
  • Greek: “Ταρσός”
  • Hebrew: “טרסוס”
  • Hebrew: “תרסוס”
  • Hindi: “टार्सस”
  • Hungarian: “Tarsus”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Tarsus”
  • Indonesian: “Tarsus, Mersin”
  • Indonesian: “Tarsus”
  • Irish: “Tarsus”
  • Italian: “Antiochia al Cidno”
  • Italian: “Tarso di Cilicia”
  • Italian: “Tarso in Cilicia”
  • Italian: “Tarso”
  • Japanese: “タルスス”
  • Japanese: “タルソス”
  • Javanese: “Tarsus, Mersin”
  • Javanese: “Tarsus”
  • Korean: “타르소스”
  • Korean: “타르수스”
  • Kurdish: “Tarsus”
  • Latin: “Tarsus”
  • Latvian: “Tarsa”
  • Latvian: “Tarsusa”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarsas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarsusas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tarsus”
  • Macedonian: “Тарс”
  • Macedonian: “Тарсос”
  • Macedonian: “Тарсус”
  • Malagasy: “Tarsa”
  • Malay: “Tarsus, Mersin”
  • Malay: “Tarsus”
  • Maltese: “Tarsu”
  • Mazanderani: “طرسوس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dâi-só”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tarsus”
  • Minangkabau: “Tarsus”
  • Moksha: “Тарсус”
  • Northern Luri: “طرسوس”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarsus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarsos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarsus i Mersin”
  • Norwegian: “Tarsus”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tars”
  • Ossetian: “Тарсус”
  • Persian: “تارسوس”
  • Persian: “ترسوس”
  • Persian: “طرسوس”
  • Polish: “Tars”
  • Polish: “Tarsos”
  • Polish: “Tarsus”
  • Portuguese: “Tarso na Cilícia”
  • Portuguese: “Tarso”
  • Portuguese: “Tarsos”
  • Portuguese: “Tarsus”
  • Romanian: “Tarsos”
  • Romanian: “Tarsus”
  • Russian: “Тарс”
  • Russian: “Тарсус”
  • Scots: “Tarsus, Mersin”
  • Scots: “Tarsus”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tarsus”
  • Serbian: “Tars”
  • Serbian: “Tarsus”
  • Serbian: “Тарс”
  • Serbian: “Тарсус”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tars”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tarsus”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tarz”
  • Slovak: “Tarsus (mesto)”
  • Slovak: “Tarsus”
  • Slovenian: “Tarz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “طرسوس”
  • Spanish: “Arzobispado de Tarso”
  • Spanish: “Tarso en Cilicia”
  • Spanish: “Tarso”
  • Spanish: “Tarsos”
  • Swahili: “Tarso”
  • Swahili: “Tarsus”
  • Swedish: “Tarsus”
  • Tagalog: “Tarso”
  • Tajik: “Тарсус”
  • Tatar: “Тарсус”
  • Thai: “ตาร์ซัส”
  • Turkish: “Tarsi”
  • Turkish: “Tarsos”
  • Turkish: “Tarsus, Mersin”
  • Turkish: “Tarsus”
  • Ukrainian: “Тарс”
  • Ukrainian: “Тарсус”
  • Urdu: “طرسوس، مرسین”
  • Venetian: “Tarso”
  • Vietnamese: “Tarsus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tarsus”
  • Welsh: “Tarsus”
  • Western Frisian: “Tarsus”
  • Western Mari: “Тарсус”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ٹارسس”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔尔苏斯”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Tarsus”. Photo: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0.