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unusual facts about Aladağ, Adana



2013 IWBF Men's U23 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship

The 2013 IWBF Men's U23 World Championship was the fifth edition of the IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship held in Adana, Turkey from 7 to 14 September 2013.

Abidin Dino

While his young wife Güzin Dino taught French at Adana High School, he worked for a local newspaper, producing articles and drawings that illustrated with poetic realism of the hard lives and working conditions of agricultural laborers in the region.

Adana Center for Arts and Culture

The proximity of the building to the Taşköprü and being also made of hewn stone strengthens the ideas on the architectural history of Adana.

Adana Cinema Museum

Established in 2011 in a renewed old Adana house, the museum is situated on the west side of Seyhan River.

Photos and artifacts on display of other well-known people from Adana associated with cinema are writer Yaşar Kemal (born 1923), actor Şener Şen (born 1941) and his father actor Ali Şen (1918-1989), Muzaffer İzgü (born 1933), Ali Özgentürk (born 1947), Orhan Duru, Aytaç Arman (born 1949), Bilal İnci, Meral Zeren, Menderes Samancılar, Nurhan Tekerek and Mahmut Hekimoğlu.

Adana Printing Machines

The official story behind the name Adana states that Donald Aspinall named the company after the city of Adana in Turkey, having served there during World War I.

Aero Flight

Aero Flight operated services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Adana, Alicante, Ankara, Cairo, Catania, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Istanbul, Luxor, Munich, Pristina, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sarajevo, Saint Petersburg, Stuttgart and Tivat.

Ağaçlı

Ağaçlı, Ceyhan, a village in the district of Ceyhan, Adana Province, Turkey

Akarca

Akarca, Kozan, a village in Kozan district of Adana Province, Turkey

Akdam

Akdam, Yüreğir, a village in the district of Yüreğir, Adana Province

Akdam, Ceyhan, a village in the district of Ceyhan, Adana Province

Ayvalı

Ayvalı, İmamoğlu, a village in İmamoğlu district of Adana Province, Turkey

Bahçe

Bahçe, Karataş, a village in the district of Karataş, Adana Province

Boztahta

Boztahta, Karaisalı, a village in the district of Karaisalı, Adana Province

Boztahta, Kozan, a village in the district of Kozan, Adana Province

Çamlıbel

Çamlıbel, Pozantı, a village in Pozantı district of Adana Province, Turkey

Çiçekli

Çiçekli, Yüreğir, a village in Yüreğir district of Adana Province, Turkey

Çiçekli, Ceyhan, a village in Ceyhan district of Adana Province, Turkey

Daniel Decker

Named after the city where one of the first massacres of the Armenian people took place, “Adana” tells the story of the Armenian Genocide, during which soldiers of the Ottoman Empire forced 1.5 million Armenians into starvation, torture and extermination because they would not renounce their Christian faith.

Dayılar

Dayılar, Aladağ, a village in the district of Aladağ, Adana Province, Turkey

Dervişler

Dervişler, Seyhan, a village in the district of Seyhan, Adana Province, Turkey

Elections for Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey

The number of metropolitan centers was three in 1984 (Ankara, İstanbul and İzmir) and eight in 1989 (with Adana, Bursa, Gaziantep, Kayseri and Konya).

Galibi Order

The Order's central dargah is in Ankara and it has various branches throughout Turkey (e.g., Istanbul, Çorum, Adana, Gaziantep, Kütahya, Isparta, Antalya).

Gaz Choudhry

He was chosen in the All Star team for the European Championships in Adana, southern Turkey.

Geography of Turkey

Toward the east, the extensive Çukurova Plain (historically known as the Cilician Plain) around Adana, Turkey's fifth most populous city, consist largely of reclaimed flood lands.

Gökçeler

Gökçeler, Seyhan, a village in the district of Seyhan, Adana Province

Gölbaşı

Gölbaşı, Seyhan, a village in the district of Seyhan, Adana Province, Turkey

Hürriyet

Hürriyet has regional offices in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Adana, Antalya and Trabzon, as well as a news network comprising 52 offices and 600 reporters in Turkey and abroad, all affiliated with Doğan News Agency, which primarily serves newspapers and television channels that are under the management of Doğan Media Group (Doğan Yayın Holding).

Karayusuflu

Karayusuflu, Karaisalı, a village in the district of Karaisalı, Adana Province, Turkey

Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım

In 1884, Nazım worked as an Ottoman official in the public service of the Ottoman Empire in Chios, Adana, Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa.

Kızıldere

Kızıldere, Ceyhan, a village in Ceyhan district of Adana Province, Turkey

Köklüce

Köklüce, Yüreğir, a village in the district of Yüreğir, Adana Province

Kütüklü

Kütüklü, Yüreğir, a village in the district of Yüreğir, Adana Province

Merkez

Merkez Park, an urban park along the Seyhan River, in Adana, Turkey

Mustafabeyli

Mustafabeyli, Adana, a town in Ceyhan district of Adana Province, Turkey

Oruçlu

Oruçlu, Feke, a village in the district of Feke, Adana Province

Oruçlu, Kozan, a village in the district of Kozan, Adana Province

Oymaklı

Oymaklı, Karataş, a village in the district of Karataş, Adana Province

Salmanbeyli

Salmanbeyli, Seyhan, a village in the district of Seyhan, Adana Province, Turkey

Seyhan

Old Town: Referring to the city of Adana before the foundation of the Republic, this zone is bordered by D400 state road on the road, Seyhan river on the west, roughly Debboy and Obalar street at the south and the Adana Şakirpaşa Airport on the west.

Sugözü

Sugözü, Yumurtalık, a village in the district of Yumurtalık, Adana Province

Turunçlu

Turunçlu, Kozan, a village in Kozan district of Adana Province, Turkey

Turunçlu, Yüreğir, a village in Yüreğir district of Adana Province, Turkey

Uzunkuyu

Uzunkuyu, Aladağ, a village in the district of Aladağ, Adana Province

Vartkes Yeghiayan

In December 2010, a suit was filed against the Turkish government and two Turkish banks, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and Ziraat Bankası, for seized Armenian assets in the region of Adana.

Yemişli

Yemişli, Karataş, a village in the district of Karataş, Adana Province

Yüksekören

Yüksekören, Aladağ, a village in the district of Aladağ, Adana Province

Yüksekören, Kozan, a village in the district of Kozan, Adana Province

Zamantı River

A 500 km² area along the river basin corresponds to Aladağlar National Park, mostly covered in forests and extending within Yahyalı (Kayseri Province), Çamardı (Niğde Province) and Aladağ (Adana Province) districts.


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Boztahta

Boztahta, Aladağ, a village in the district of Aladağ, Adana Province