Ceyhan

Ceyhan
Ceyhan
	Ceety
	Ceyhan
	Location o Ceyhan athin Turkey.
	Ceyhan Location o Ceyhan
	Coordinates: 37°2′N 35°49′E / 37.033°N 35.817°E
Kintra	Turkey
Region	Mediterranean
Province	Adana
Govrenment
• Mayor	Hüseyin Sözlü (MHP)
Population (2010)
• Urban	105,879
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	01x xx
Licence plate	01
Website	http://www.ceyhan.bel.tr

Ceyhan (pronounced [dʒeːˈhan]) is a ceety in sootheast Turkey an wi 105,000 (2010) indwallers (150,000 in the metropolitan aurie) it is the seicont lairgest ceety o Adana Province efter the caipital Adana. Ceyhan is the transportation hub for Middle Eastren, Central Asie an Roushie ile an naitural gas. It is situatit on the Ceyhan River, frae which it takes its name, in central Çukurova, 43 km (27 mi) east o Adana. The Ceyhan River is dammed at Aslantas tae provide fluid control an irrigation for the lawer river basin aroond Ceyhan.

The ile terminals

Ceyhan's marine transport terminal is the Mediterranean terminus o the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline (the "BTC") which brings crude ile frae the landlockit Caspian Sea athort Azerbaijan an Georgie, an enterin Turkey in the northeast. The pipeline wis completit in Mey 2005. The terminal contains seiven storage tanks, a jetty capable o loadin twa tankers o up tae 300,000 t DWT DWT uses unsupportit parameter (help) simultaneously, meterin facilities, a waste watter treatment plant an vapor incineration ("burn-aff") facilities.

Ceyhan Terminal is an aw the destination o Kirkuk-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline an planned Samsun-Ceyhan bi-pass pipeline. In futur Ceyhan will be an aw a naitural gas hub for a planned pipeline constructit parallel tae the Kirkuk-Ceyhan ile pipeline, an for a planned extension o the Blue Stream Gas Pipeline tae frae Samsun tae Ceyhan.

Set tae acome a crossroad in the near futur, Ceyhan's significance in poleetical terms is an aw expectit tae rise considerably, as stressed durin an early 2006 symposium organized bi the municipality.^[1]

Modren ceety o Ceyhan

Ceyhan is the seicont maist developit an populatit ceety o Adana Province efter Adana. Lik iverywhaur else on this coast it is roastin het in simmer. Thare are a number o restaurants servin the legendary Adana kebab. The river runs throu the ceety center.

Places o interest

The caravanserai o Kurtkulağı - biggit in 1659 bi Hüseyin Paşa, airchitect Mehmed Ağa.
Yılan kale - a castle on a steep rock, biggit in the 12t century, durin the Crusades tae control the Çukurova plain an tred routes east.
Tumlu Kale or Dumlukale - anither castle.
Sirkeli Höyük - biggit tae commemorate a battle here atween Hittite emperor Muvattali an the Egyptian pharaoh Rameses.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns-sister ceeties

Sumgayit, Azerbaijan^[2]

See an aw

Footnotes

↑ From Ceyhun to Ceyhan - Papers presented during the 29 March-1 April 2006 symposium organized by the municipality of Ceyhan Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine covering the region's culture and ethnography, as well as the broader subjects o the internaitional ile industry, the Caucasus an the Cyprus dispute. Lua error in Module:Translations at line 39: The parameter "1" is required..
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[1] From Ceyhun to Ceyhan - Papers presented during the 29 March-1 April 2006 symposium organized by the municipality of Ceyhan Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine covering the region's culture and ethnography, as well as the broader subjects o the internaitional ile industry, the Caucasus an the Cyprus dispute. Lua error in Module:Translations at line 39: The parameter "1" is required..

[2] "Sumqayıt şəhər icra hakimiyyəti. Beynəlxalq Əlaqələr". Archived frae the original on 20 December 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2010. Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (help)

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