AyaÅŸ, Mersin

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Ayaş is a municipality in the district of the Turkish province of Mersin Erdemli.

Ayaş is located in the south of the county on the Mediterranean Sea on the highway D-400, about 20 kilometers southwest of the county town Erdemli and 55 kilometers southwest of the provincial capital of Mersin. Ayaş consists of the districts Merdivenlikuyu and Yemişkumu. Main source of income of the town is tourism.

About ten kilometers east of Ayaş opens the Limonlu Çayı (antique Lamos ) into the sea, which in ancient times the boundary between the levels ( Cilicia Pedias ) and the Rough Cilicia ( Cilicia Tracheia ) was formed. In the center of Ayaş the ruins of the ancient city of Sebaste Elaiussa and about seven kilometers lying northeast of the center, in Kumkuyu / Tirtar, the terrain of Akkale. In the north of the resort, about 2.5 miles inland, a collapse doline is the remains of the city Kanytelleis, temporarily belonged to Elaiussa Sebaste.