Kumkuyu

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

Kumkuyu is located in the south of the county on the Mediterranean Sea on the highway D-400, about 15 kilometers southwest of the county town Erdemli and 50 kilometers southwest of the provincial capital of Mersin. Main source of income of the town is tourism.

The former village name was Tırtar. This name was derived from the semi-nomadic tribe of Tırtar that were settled in the area since 1950.

About six kilometers northeast of Kumkuyu 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. On the territory of the municipality lies between the road and the Mediterranean Sea, the Late Roman - Early Byzantine ruins 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, whose remains are about seven kilometers southwest to find in Ayaş.