Adana Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
city in southern Turkey
About Adana
Adana has been inhabited for over 8000 years. The name may drive from a proto-European worddanu, "on the river", making it an unlikely cousin of the Danube, Dnieper and Doncaster. People known to settle here include the Luwians, Hittites, Sea People, Assyrians, Cilicians, Persians, Selucids, Armenians and Romans - these built the stone bridge (Taşköprü) over the river. Adana changed hands many times after the break-up of the Roman-Byzantine Empire but came under Ottoman control from 1517. In early modern times it developed a cotton industry and had a polyglot population of Muslims, Armenians, Greeks, Syrians and Arabs. But inter-ethnic tensions played into resentment of industrial labour conditions, and the Armenians suffered a massacre in 1908 then genocide in 1915. The cotton trade has s
Top Attractions in Adana
Explore the best things to see and do in Adana:
- ★Archaeology Museum
- ★Atatürk Museum
- ★Cinema Museum
- ★Grand Mosque
- ★Great Clock Tower
- ★Kuruköprü Monumental Church
- ★Oil Mosque
- ★Ramazanoğlu Mansion
Where to Eat in Adana
Must-try local food and restaurants:
- 🍴Elem Ziyapaşa Restaurant
- 🍴Kazancilar
- 🍴Sercan
Where to Stay in Adana
- 🏨Adana Hilton
- 🏨Adana Şirin Park Otel
- 🏨Çukurova Park Otel
- 🏨Divan Adana
- 🏨DoubleTree by Hilton
- 🏨ibis
Adana Travel Guide Sections
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