Tarsus
Burial place
district and town in Mersin, Turkey
Location: 36.9167, 34.9000 · Pleiades 648789
Who is recorded here
- Paul the Apostle birth · AD 5
- Paul the Apostle residence · AD 36
- Barnabas travel · AD 44
- Paul the Apostle travel · AD 49
- Firmilian death · AD 268
- Florian death · AD 276
- Maximinus Daza death · AD 313
- Julian the Apostate burial · AD 363
- Diodore of Tarsus death · AD 394
- Arsacius of Tarsus birth · AD 400
- Nectarius of Constantinople birth · AD 400
- Theodore of Tarsus birth · AD 602
- Paul the Apostle residence
In art
About the place
Tarsus is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 2,029 km2, and its population is 350,732 (2022). It is a historic city, 20 km inland from the Mediterranean Sea. It is part of the Adana-Mersin metropolitan area, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Turkey.
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