Qualla: Adana https://qualla.com/adana en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:05 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/9/4/adana-wp/adana-gar-gece.jpg Qualla: Adana https://qualla.com/adana Adana: Introduction https://qualla.com/adana/ Photo credit Hustle77, CC BY-SA 4.0. The aroma of grilling lamb fat drifts through the evening air of Adana's old town, mingling with the call to prayer echoing from minarets that have watched over this crossroads for centuries. Here on the fertile Cilician Plains, fifty kilometers from the Mediterranean coast, the Seyhan River has sustained human settlement for eight millennia, its banks witness to Hittites and Romans, Armenians and Ottomans, and now a sprawling modern metropolis of over two million. The city wears its history lightly, in a Roman bridge that carried traffic until 2007 and now serves as a popular gathering spot, in mosques built in Mamluk style, in the polyglot echoes of a cotton-trading past. But Adana is no museum. This is a working city where industry hums alongside tradition, where NATO aircraft streak overhead from nearby Incirlik, and where the kebab that bears the city's name represents just the beginning of culinary exploration.

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]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/9/4/adana-wk/sy94-adana-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Adana: Bridging Millennia https://qualla.com/adana/ Photo credit MUSTAFA TOR, CC BY-SA 2.5. The Taskopru, Adana's stone bridge, has anchored this city's identity since the Roman Empire. Built around 120-135 AD, this remarkable structure once formed a crucial link in the trade routes connecting Persia and Anatolia to Mediterranean ports. Known through the ages as the Sar...

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]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/9/4/adana-wk/sy94-adana-bridging-millennia.mp3 0:06 2 full Adana: Crossroads of Conflict and Commerce https://qualla.com/adana/ Photo credit Public domain. Adana's strategic position has made it a prize and a refuge throughout history. The Luwians, Hittites, Sea People, Assyrians, Cilicians, Persians, Seleucids, Armenians, and Romans all left their mark before the Ottomans established their four-century rule. In early modern times, ...

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]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/9/4/adana-wk/sy94-adana-crossroads-of-conflict-and-commerce.mp3 0:06 3 full Adana: The Art of the Kebab https://qualla.com/adana/ Photo credit Anatolianpride, Public domain. No visit to Adana is complete without tasting its namesake dish. The Adana kebab is a skewer of minced lamb, seasoned with local red pepper and hand-kneaded until the meat develops its characteristic texture, then grilled over charcoal flames. The old town restaurants that circle...

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]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/9/4/adana-wk/sy94-adana-the-art-of-the-kebab.mp3 0:06 4 full Adana: Between Mountain and Sea https://qualla.com/adana/ Photo credit Mehmettasyagan, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Seyhan Dam, completed in 1955, created a lake that has transformed the northern edge of the city into a recreation area where the ancient Roman city of Augusta lies submerged beneath the waters. University-managed botanical gardens and the 1,575-meter bridge across the wester...

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