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Yanpar

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Country
  
Turkey

District
  
Akdeniz

Postal code
  
33115

Elevation
  
135 m

Population
  
730 (2012)

Province
  
Mersin Province

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Licence plate
  
33

Local time
  
Monday 8:12 AM

Area code
  
0324

Yanpar

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