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Encyclopedia > Ceyhan

Coordinates: 37°2′N 35°49′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

Ceyhan
Yılanlı Kale (Castle of Serpents) near Ceyhan
Yılanlı Kale (Castle of Serpents) near Ceyhan
Location in Turkey
Overview
Region Mediterranean Region, Turkey
Province Adana Province
Coordinates 37°2′ N 35°49′ E
Postal code 01x xx
Licence plate code 01
Website http://www.ceyhan.bel.tr

Ceyhan is the second most populous city of the Turkish province of Adana and is an important Mediterranean port. Ceyhan is situated on the Ceyhan River in the eastern part of the large Çukurova plain, 43 km east of the city of Adana. The city takes its name from the Ceyhan River, which is dammed at Aslantaş to provide flood control and irrigation for the lower river basin around Ceyhan. Image File history File links Flag_of_Turkey. ... Image File history File links YilanliKale. ... Image File history File links Adana_Turkey_Provinces_locator_Ceyhan. ... Below each region you will find associated Cities with the region. ... Mediterranean Sea Region Mediterranean Region (Akdeniz Bölgesi), // Mediterranean Region Adana Province Antalya Province Burdur Province Hatay Province Isparta Province KahramanmaraÅŸ Province Mersin province Osmaniye Province Provinces of Turkey Categories: | ... Provinces of Turkey are called iller in Turkish (singular is il, see Turkish alphabet for capitalization of i). ... Adana Province is a province with a surface area of 14. ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... Postal codes in Turkey are usually found generally start with the two digit license plate code followed by three digits to specify the location within the province. ... Turkish car number plates are license plates found on Turkish vehicles. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Adana Province is a province with a surface area of 14. ... Composite satellite image of the Mediterranean Sea. ... Pyramos or Pyramus (Greek: Πύραμος), formerly the Leucosyrus, was one of the great rivers of ancient Asia Minor. ... Cilicia as Roman province, 120 AD In Antiquity, Cilicia (Κιλικία) was a region, and often a political unit, on the southeastern coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey), north of Cyprus. ... Adana (the ancient Antioch in Cilicia or Antioch on the Sarus) is the capital of Adana Province in Turkey. ...

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The oil terminals

Ceyhan's marine transport terminal is the Mediterranean terminus of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline (the "BTC") which brings crude oil from the landlocked Caspian Sea across Azerbaijan and Georgia, and entering Turkey in the northeast. The pipeline was completed in May 2005. The terminal contains seven storage tanks, a jetty capable of loading two tankers of up to 300,000 dwt simultaneously, metering facilities, a waste water treatment plant and vapor incineration ("burn-off") facilities. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (sometimes abbreviated as BTC pipeline) transports crude petroleum 1,776 km from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. ... Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario Ignacy Łukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ... The Caspian Sea is the largest lake on Earth by both area and volume,[1] with a surface area of 371,000 square kilometres (143,244 mi²) and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometres (18,761 mi³).[2] It is a landlocked endorheic body of water and lies between... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A tanker is a ship designed to transport liquids in bulk. ... In numerical analysis and functional analysis, the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) refers to wavelet transforms for which the wavelets are discretely sampled. ... Wastewater treatment plant also called wastewater treatment works Sewage treatment – treatment and disposal of human waste. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...


Ceyhan Terminal is also the destination of Kirkuk-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline and planned Samsun-Ceyhan by-pass pipeline. In future Ceyhan will be also a natural gas hub for a planned pipeline constructed parallel to the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline, and for a planned extension of the Blue Stream Gas Pipeline to from Samsun to Ceyhan. A 600 mile dual pipeline is Iraqs largest crude oil export line. ... SCP - Samsun Ceyhan Pipeline Project Oil pipeline project from Turkish Northern Black Sea City Samsun to Turkish Mediterranean coast town Ceyhan. ... Blue Stream is a major trans-Black Sea gas pipeline operated by the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom that carries natural gas from Russia into Turkey. ...


Set to become a crossroad in the near future, Ceyhan's significance in political terms is also expected to rise considerably, as stressed during an early 2006 symposium organized by the municipality [1]. For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Symposium originally referred to a drinking party (the Greek verb sympotein means to drink together) but has since come to refer to any academic conference, whether or not drinking takes place. ...


Modern city of Ceyhan

Ceyhan is a conservative Turkish country town. Like everywhere else on this coast it is roasting hot in summer. There are a number of restaurants serving the legendary Adana kebab. The river runs through the town center.


Places of interest

  • The caravanserai of Kurtkulağı - built in 1659 by Hüseyin Paşa, architect Mehmed Ağa.
  • Yılan kale - a castle on a steep rock, built in the 12th cenutry, during the Crusades to control the Çukurova plain and trade routes east.
  • Tumlu Kale or Dumlukale - another castle.
  • Sirkeli Höyük - built to commemorate a battle here between Hittite emperor Muvattali and the Egyptian pharoah Rameses.

A caravanserai (also spelt caravansarai, caravansary Persian كاروانسرا, Turkish: kervansaray), means home or shelter for caravans (caravan meaning a group or convoy of soldiers, traders or pilgrims engaged in long distance travel). ... // Events May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. ... The Siege of Antioch, from a medieval miniature painting, during the First Crusade. ... Hittite can refer to either: The ancient Anatolian people called the Hittites; or The Hittite language, an ancient Indo-European language they spoke. ...

See also

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (sometimes abbreviated as BTC pipeline) transports crude petroleum 1,776 km from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. ... A 600 mile dual pipeline is Iraqs largest crude oil export line. ... SCP - Samsun Ceyhan Pipeline Project Oil pipeline project from Turkish Northern Black Sea City Samsun to Turkish Mediterranean coast town Ceyhan. ... Blue Stream is a major trans-Black Sea gas pipeline operated by the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom that carries natural gas from Russia into Turkey. ... Combatants French Turkish Revolutionaries Franco-Turkish war, more often called Cilicia war (French: La guerre en Cilicie, Turkish: Güney Cephesi - the southern front), was a series of military conflicts in the aftermath of the World War I that opposed Turkish National Forces directed by Turkish Grand National Assembly governments... Chronology of the Turkish War of Independence is a timeline of events for the Turkish War of Independence (including the background starting with the end of the First World War). ...

Footnotes

  1. ^ From Ceyhun to Ceyhan - Papers presented during the 29 March-1 April 2006 symposium organized by the municipality of Ceyhan covering the region's culture and ethnography, as well as the broader subjects of the international oil industry, the Caucasus and the Cyprus dispute. (Turkish)

 

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