Karataş Islets are two

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Karataş Karataş ( gr, Μέγαρσος, Mègarsos) is a small city and a district in Adana Province, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, 47 km from the city of Adana, between the rivers of Seyhan and Ceyhan, the Pyramos of Antiquity. The city of K ...

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at and .Their distance to Karataş is less than . The area of the western islet is about and the area of the eastern islet is about . According to the municipality of Karataş these two islets were named "Didimae" in the antiquity. Currently, the islands are uninhabited. But, the ruins around the islets show that these islets were inhabited in the antiquity. According to the researcher İsa Besiç, during the construction of some 19th-century buildings in the mainland (

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) construction material from the islets were used.İsa Besiç page
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