Tarsus Otogar

Modern station, not crowded, good location, with flights and reservations available on a regular basis... Tarsus is a Turkish city located in Cilicia in the south of the country on the Mediterranean coast, belonging to the province of Mersin, about 15 km from the city of Mersin and 40 km from the city of Adana and about 12 miles from the Taurus Mountains ". Its population in 2001 reached about 348 thousand people, and upon entering the city’s gates the smell of ancient history smells to document and tell the story of the past time of this city. Also, other battles took place against the Romans in the year 270 AH, at the time of the Reliant on God. This city was the capital of the province "Cilicia". Tarsus was important before Islam. Its architecture was renewed by the Assyrian emperor "Sennacherib" in the year 704-861 BC. In Roman times, the province of "Cilicia" was established, so Tarsus became the seat of the ruler "Augustine". Tarsus remained under Roman rule until the Arab-Islamic conquest of the Levant. As for its importance in the Rashidun and Umayyad times, it was the first line of defense and the Muslims used to pass through it during their campaigns to the country of the Romans (Byzantine), and when Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan opened in the year 645 AD, he found the forts between Antioch and Tarsus are empty of people, so he kept a group of people from the Levant, the Jazira, and Qansrine as a protector until his return. The city remained important until its fall into the hands of the Byzantines, as blood spilled over its strait, and history recorded important events on its face. The construction of the ancient city was during the era of Caliph Harun al-Rashid (170-193 AH) corresponding to (678-809) AD, in addition to the fact that the geographical location of the city was of great importance in its civilizational and cultural formation in general, so many intellectuals, readers, modernists, jurists and students of science intended for it. The city of Tarsus, as some scholars say, is the city of the young people of the cave, according to the opinion of some scholars, the place where the cave owners mentioned in the Holy Qur’an lived.