District Akdeniz Postal code 33115 Elevation 135 m Population 730 (2012) | Time zone EET (UTC+2) Licence plate 33 Local time Monday 8:12 AM Area code 0324 | |
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Weather 14°C, Wind NW at 2 km/h, 42% Humidity | ||
Yanpar (also known as Gökkuşağı) is a village in Akdeniz district of Mersin Province, Turkey. It is situated just south of Çukurova motorway. The distance to Mersin is 18 kilometres (11 mi). The name of the village refers to the Yanpar tribe. Although there are no references to this tribe in historical records, according to the village website, Yanpar is the original name of the Yaparlu tribe of the historical records. Yanpar tribe is a Turkmen tribe that migrated from Central Anatolia to the present area during the short Egyptian rule in the 1830s. The population of the village was 730 as of 2012.
Map of Yanpar, Yanpar Mahallesi, 33115 Akdeniz%2FMersin Province, Turkey
References
Yanpar Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA