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Mercin, Ceyhan

mahalle (administrative quarter) in Ceyhan, Adana, south-central Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ8080129 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mercin (formerly: İncetarla) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ceyhan, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 294 (2022).

Editorial summary

“Mercin, Ceyhan” enters the record as mahalle (administrative quarter) in Ceyhan, Adana, south-central Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mercin, Ceyhan and mahalle can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mercin, Ceyhan and mahalle.
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Why this record matters

“Mercin, Ceyhan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mercin, Ceyhan and mahalle provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Dec 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8080129. Authority coordinates are 37.083, 35.867. 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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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mercin, Ceyhan” 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.