INTRODUCING OUR HOMETOWN
Turkish Partner-Karataş/Adana
Karataş (Ancient Greek: Μεγαρσος, Mègarsus) is a small city and a district in Adana
Province, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey,
47 km from the city of Adana, between the rivers of
Seyhan and Ceyhan,...
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INTRODUCING OUR HOMETOWN
Turkish Partner-Karataş/Adana
Karataş (Ancient Greek: Μεγαρσος, Mègarsus) is a small city and a district in Adana
Province, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey,
47 km from the city of Adana, between the rivers of
Seyhan and Ceyhan, the Pyramos of Antiquity.
The city of Karataş has a popula-tion of 8,483 (in
2010), with another 13,000 living in surrounding
villages.
Turkish dessert “baklava”
History
The area has been inhabited from at least Hittite times
and probably earlier.
It was later part of the Assyrian
province of Quwê (Que).
By the time of the Greeks,
who knew the city as Megarsos/Maga-rso, there was a
port here at the mouth of the nav-igable Pyramos,
supplying an important military and trading route into
the plain of Cilicia, and also providing access to the sea
for the river towns, like Mallus.
In 333 BCE, just
before the battle of Issus, Alexander the Great
sacrificed here at a temple that, by interpretatio
graeca, he took to be of Athena; the "
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