İskenderun (English spelling)

Japanese: イスケンデルン(英語表記)İskenderun
İskenderun (English spelling)
Formerly known as Alexandreta, Alexandreta is a port city in south-central Turkey and the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Iskenderun facing the Mediterranean Sea, and was the starting point of the inland trade route to India and Iran until the opening of the Suez Canal (1869). It was a port in the Aleppo region of the Ottoman Empire, but was under French mandate from 1918 to 1937. After the city was returned to Turkey, the port facilities were improved, it became a base for the Turkish Navy, and it developed rapidly with the establishment of an industry, mainly chemical fertilizers. It is connected by air to Adana, Ankara, and Istanbul. Population: 154,807 (1990).

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Japanese:
旧名アレクサンドレタ。トルコ中央南部の港湾都市で,同名県の県都。地中海に面するイスケンデルン湾の東岸に位置し,スエズ運河の開通 (1869) まではインドやイランにいたる内陸通商路の起点であった。オスマン帝国のアレッポ地方に属する港であったが,1918~37年の間はフランスの委任統治下におかれた。同市付近がトルコへ返還されてからは港湾施設が改良され,トルコ海軍の基地となり,また化学肥料を主とする工業の創設などによって急速に発展した。アダナ,アンカラ,イスタンブールとは空路で結ばれる。人口 15万 4807 (1990) 。

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