Mersin

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  1. 1
    A province and metropolitan municipality in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast.

    "Just before 2 p.m., we entered Neco Tantuni, a one-room restaurant in Enfield that specializes in tantuni (meat fried in cottonseed oil, garnished with tomatoes, parsley, and onion, and rolled up in a dürüm wrap), a street food from Mersin, in southern Turkey."

  2. 2
    A city, the capital of Mersin Province, Turkey.

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"Just before 2 p.m., we entered Neco Tantuni, a one-room restaurant in Enfield that specializes in tantuni (meat fried in cottonseed oil, garnished with tomatoes, parsley, and onion, and rolled up in a dürüm wrap), a street food from Mersin, in southern Turkey."

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مرسین (mersin, “myrtle; Mersin”).

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