No image available for this artist.
|
The CottonpickersÇukurova Çukurova Fertile Plain in Turkey This article is about a plain in Turkey. For the district municipality in Adana, see Çukurova, Adana. Çukurova ( Turkish pronunciation: [tʃuˈkuɾova]), or the Cilician Plain (Cilicia Pedias in antiquity), is a large fertile plain in the Cilicia region of southern Anatolia. The plain covers the easternmost areas of Mersin Province, southern and central Adana Province, western Osmaniye Province and northwestern Hatay Province. Çukurova imposed on Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye and Hatay provinces. Etymology Çukurova is a compound of the Turkish words çukur "hollow, depression" and ova "plains". The oldest recorded use of the name in Turkish can be traced back to Aşıkpaşazade's late 15th-century Ottoman Turkish work Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmān [tr].[citation needed] History On… (Source: Wikipedia)
|
