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Encyclopedia Britannica



MERSINA

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 174 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MERSINA , a town on the
south
 -eastern
coast
  of
Asia
 
Minor
 , and
capital
  of a sanjak in the vilayet of Adana. Pop. about 15,00o including many Christians, Armenian, Greek and European. Its existence as a port began with the silting up of the harbour of Tarsus and Pompeiopolis,
east
  and west, in the early middle ages; but it did not rise to importance till the Egyptian occupation of Cilicia (1832). It is now the busiest port on the
south
 
coast
 , being the terminus of the railway from Tarsus and Adana, by which (but still more by road) the produce of the
rich
  " Aleian " plain comes down. It is served by most of the Levantine steamship companies, and is the best point of departure for visitors desiring to see Tarsus, the Cilician remains, and the finest scenery of the
East
  Taurus. There is, however, no enclosed harbour, but only a good jetty. The making of a
breakwater
  has
long
  been under consideration. The anchorage in the roadstead is good, but the bay shoals for a
long
  way out, and is exposed to swell from south-west and south. Mersina is an American mission centre, and the seat of a British vice-
consul
 . Like all lowland Cilicia, it has a notoriously bad summer climate, and all inhabitants, who can do so, migrate to stations on the lower slopes of Taurus.
(D. G. H.)


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