Fındıkpınarı

Fındıkpınarı is a town in Mersin Province, Turkey.

Fındıkpınarı
Town
Town hall in Fındıkpınarı
Fındıkpınarı Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°04′N 34°32′E
Country	Turkey
Province	Mersin Province
District	Mezitli
Elevation	1,200 m (3,900 ft)
Population  (2018)
• Total	1,239
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	33330
Area code(s)	0324
Licence plate	33

Fındıkpınarı is in Mezitli ilçe (district), of Greater Mersin. It is mountainous town with an altitude of 1,200 metres (3,900 ft). It is 46 kilometres (29 mi) from Mersin. Situated among pine forests it is a popular summer resort. (Mountain resort towns are usually called yayla) Traditionally, people from Mersin used to spend their summer vacations in Fındıkpınarı. Although the yayla tradition is on the decline, the settled population of the town was 2818[1] as of 2012.

Above and east of the town is a small garrison fortress consisting of three towers and a single wall which block access to the summit of an outcrop. The masonry and plan of this site date from the 12th or 13th century during the period of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. The fortification was surveyed in 1981.[2] Directly below the outcrop are the traces of a medieval settlement.[3]

On 15 December 1954, Fındıkpınar was declared village [4] and in 1993 the village was declared township .[5]

References

1. Turksat Archived September 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
2. Photographs and a plan of the fortification at Fındıkpınarı
3. Edwards, Robert W. (1987). The Fortifications of Armenian Cilicia: Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXIII. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University. pp. 122–124. ISBN 0-88402-163-7.
4. Gündüz Artan: Mersin Tarih Kronolojisi, İçel sanat kulübü Yayınları, Mersin, 2003
5. Mayor's page (in Turkish) Archived 2011-03-03 at the Wayback Machine