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Şanlıurfa,, often simply known as Urfa in daily language ( Kurdish Riha, Arabic الرها Ar-Ruhā, Syriac ܐܘܪܗ Urhoy, Armenian Ուռհա Or ' ha ), in ancient times Edessa, is a city with 482, 323 inhabitants ( 2009 estimate ) in south-eastern Turkey, and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province.
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Şanlıurfa and simply
Şanlıurfa Province (, ) or simply Urfa Province is a province in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey.
Şanlıurfa and known
In Turkey, Job is known as Eyüp, and he is supposed to have lived in Şanlıurfa.
Osroene, also spelled Osrohene and Osrhoene (; ) and sometimes known by the name of its capital city, Edessa ( modern Şanlıurfa, Turkey ), was a historical kingdom located in upper Mesopotamia, which enjoyed semi-autonomy to complete independence from the years of 132 BC to AD 244.
Şanlıurfa and Urfa
** The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Şanlıurfa.
The same name appears also in Armenian as, transliterated Urha or Ourha, in Arabic it is transliterated as Er Ruha or Ar-Ruha, commonly Urfa, and in Kurdish, and in Turkish Urfa, Ourfa, Sanli Urfa, or Şanlıurfa (" Glorious Urfa "), its present name.
Şanlı ( from Arabic shan ( شأن ) " dignity " + Turkish adjectival suffix-lı ) means " great, glorious, dignified " in Turkish, and Urfa was officially renamed Şanlıurfa ( Urfa the Glorious ) by the Turkish Grand National Assembly in 1984, in recognition of the local resistance in the Turkish War of Independence.
Göbekli Tepe (" Potbelly Hill ") is a Neolithic hilltop sanctuary erected at the top of a mountain ridge in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, some northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa ( formerly Urfa / Edessa ).
Nevalı Çori was an early Neolithic settlement on the middle Euphrates, in the province of Şanlıurfa ( Urfa ), eastern Turkey.
The codes 01 – 67 are assigned in Turkish alphabetical order, except Kahramanmaraş and Şanlıurfa, whose codes are assigned based on their historic names, Maraş and Urfa respectively.
Şanlıurfa and ),
Ephrem with the others went first to Amida ( Diyarbakır ), eventually settling in Edessa ( modern Şanlıurfa ) in 363.
Şanlıurfa and ancient
Harran was a major ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia whose site is near the modern village of Altınbaşak, Turkey, 24 miles ( 44 kilometers ) southeast of Şanlıurfa.
A duplicate copy of Tablet V has been found in Sultantepe, ancient Huzirina, located near the modern town of Şanlıurfa in Turkey.
Şanlıurfa and Edessa
* Edessa, Mesopotamia or Antiochia on the Callirhoe, former capital of Osroene, later named Justinopolis and Edessa, now Şanlıurfa
Edessa is the historical name of a city in Mesopotamia, now Şanlıurfa, Turkey.
See Şanlıurfa and Edessa, Mesopotamia.
Şanlıurfa and is
The location is in a district of Şanlıurfa Province that is also named " Harran ".
The history of Şanlıurfa is recorded from the 4th century BC, but may date back to 9000 BC, when there is ample evidence for the surrounding sites at Duru, Harran and Nevali Cori.
Şanlıurfa is very hot during the summer months.
The city of Şanlıurfa is the capital of the province which bears its name.
Şanlıurfa province is divided into 11 districts ( capital district in bold ):
The Atatürk Dam (), originally the Karababa Dam, is a zoned rock-fill dam with a central core on the Euphrates River on the border of Adıyaman Province and Şanlıurfa Province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.
The dam is situated northwest of Bozova, Şanlıurfa Province, on state road from Bozova to Adıyaman.
The Birecik Dam, one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey, is located on the Euphrates River downstream of Atatürk Dam and upstream of Birecik town west of Province of Şanlıurfa in the southeastern region of Turkey.
Şanlıurfa and city
For the modern history of the city, see Şanlıurfa.
He was born in the city of Şanlıurfa, Turkey.
By 2000, the population of Şanlıurfa province had grown to 1, 436, 956 and that of Şanlıurfa city, 829, 000.
Şanlıurfa and with
Along with ar-Ruha ' ( Şanlıurfa ) and Ar-Raqqah it was one of the main cities in the region.
In 1992, Şanlıurfa had the highest concentration of land ownership in Turkey, with a landless rate of 48 %.
From 1996 onwards, with the threat of being submerged under the waters of the new dam, salvage excavations were carried out by C. Abadie Reynal of Nantes University in France together with archaeologists from Gaziantep and Şanlıurfa museums.
Şanlıurfa and Turkey
* Seleucia at the Zeugma, on the Euphrates above Zeugma, probably near modern Sırataşlar, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey ()
DNA studies on emmer wheat have shown its place of domestication to be near Şanlıurfa, in southeast Turkey.
* Antiochia in Mesopotamia, also Antiochia in Arabia and Antiochia Arabis, probably near Viranşehir, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey
Şanlıurfa and Province
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Even before GAP, Şanlıurfa Province had the largest share of cultivated and cultivable land in the GAP region, due to its flatness and highly fertile, agricultural land.
According to the 1990 census, Şanlıurfa Province contained 148, 521 households, and the average household size was 6. 74 persons.
The politics of Şanlıurfa Province are still widely shaped by the electoral adherence of a number of Zaza clans ( aşiret ).
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In the north it includes the Turkish provinces of Şanlıurfa, Mardin, and parts of Diyarbakır Province.
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