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Çiftlik, Tarsus

mahalle (administrative quarter) in Tarsus, Mersin, south-central Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ8077705 ↗
Source-derived summary

Çiftlik is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 278 (2022). It is situated in the southern slopes of the Taurus Mountains to the west of Turkish state highway D.750. The distance to Tarsus is 20 kilometres (12 mi) and the distance to Mersin is 50 kilometres (31 mi). The main agricultural product of the village is grape.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Çiftlik, Tarsus” as mahalle (administrative quarter) in Tarsus, Mersin, south-central Turkey. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Çiftlik, Tarsus and mahalle can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as mahalle (administrative quarter) in Tarsus, Mersin, south-central Turkey. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8077705. Authority coordinates are 37.131, 34.828. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Çiftlik, Tarsus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.