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Kaklıktaşı

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

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ10775166 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kaklıktaşı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 297 (2022). It is situated in the Taurus Mountains. Its distance to Tarsus is 32 kilometres (20 mi) and to Mersin is 36 kilometres (22 mi). The area around Kaklıktaşı was populated in the Roman Empire era of the 2nd and 3rd centuries. But the village was founded during the Ottoman period. Main economic activities are agriculture animal breeding and poultry husbandry.

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

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. 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 Kaklıktaşı, mahalle and administrative 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 Jul 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10775166. Authority coordinates are 37.020, 34.679. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kaklıktaşı” 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.