Mut (Mersin)

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Courage is a town and a district of the Turkish province of Mersin. The city has 29 477 inhabitants and the entire county 64 602 (as of 2008 )

Courage is a quiet and rural area at the foot of Sertavul Pass on the way from Ankara and Konya on the Taurus Mountains to the Mediterranean Sea in Anamur and Silifke. Courage is for its variant of apricot - the courage Şekerparesi - known. At the city entrance is a statue of a girl carrying a basket of them. The weather in summer is hot and people are moving into the higher elevations of the mountains. The forests here are home to wild boar, and the Gezende - dam on Ermenekfluss is a welcome change in this dry county. The dam has a hydroelectric power plant, which was built in Romania.

History

The area is probably inhabited since the time of the Hittites and was then a part of the ancient Cilicia. At the time of the Roman Empire was the city Claudiopolis with courage. The Romans followed the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. In the 13th century, the Armenians were replaced by the Turkish Karamanids who founded the eponymous Principality of Karaman. The mosque of Lal Pasha and the Red Minarets ( Turkish Kızılminare ) are two of the buildings in the Karamanids that still stand today in courage. Courage claimed for themselves how to accommodate other places in the area, the grave of the national poet Karacaoğlan.

Attractions

In the center of the Byzantine Fortress courage Kalesi. It was expanded in the 14th century by the Karamanids.

Famous people

• Musa Eroğlu, singer