Ballica is a village in Tarsus district of Mersin Province, Turkey. It is situated in the plains of Çukurova (Cilicia of the antiquity). Its distance to Tarsus is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) and its distance to Mersin is 42 kilometres (26 mi). The population of Ballica was 170 as of 2011. There are tumuli of ancient ages around the village, but the modern village was founded in 1730 by Yörüks (once-nomadic Turkmens). During the brief occupation by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt in the 19th century, cotton farming was introduced to village. After the village was returned to the Ottoman Empire, Turkmens from Elazig were settled in the village to work in cotton fields.