KahramanmaraÅŸ Province

Kahramanmaras ( Մարաշ Armenian, Kurdish Gurgum or Meres ) is a Turkish province and has 1,037,491 inhabitants (2009 ). By the end of the Turkish War of Independence, the province was only Maras. In recognition of their resistance but she was nicknamed Kahraman ( hero ) and renamed as Kahramanmaras. The eponymous provincial capital Kahramanmaras alone has 522 775 inhabitants, the second largest city is Elbistan with 135 386 inhabitants. Starting in the north clockwise Maras has the following neighboring provinces of Sivas, Malatya, Adiyaman, Gaziantep, Adana, Osmaniye and Kayseri.

Geography

The Kahramanmaras province is one of the two Turkish Mediterranean Region and Eastern Anatolia regions. The terrain is high up to 3000 m and consists of mountains of the Taurus Mountains with levels in between. The province has many rivers but no natural lakes.

Mountains and plateaus

Mountains cover more than half of the province area. Most mountains are foothills of the Taurus Mountains. With 3081 m of Nurhak is the highest mountain in the province. Other major mountains or mountain ranges are the Amano Dağları (also only Dağları or Gavur Dağları ), the Engizek Dagi ( 2815 meters), the Ahir Dagi ( 2301m ), Binboğa Dağları ( 2942 m) and the Delihöbek Dagi ( 2338 meters ).

The plateaus that make up about one quarter of the area are more in the north of the province at altitudes between 1500 and 2000 m.

Waters

The main river is the province's Ceyhan. The entire province is drained by this river. The Ceyhan rises at an altitude of 2000 m in the district Elbistan and flows in meander form only in the south-west and then south, where he unites the village Ortaklı with the Göksun -Bach. After he has grown in size, it flows through many valleys and leaving the province borders the southwest. Another important river is the Aksu, which rises when Engizek Dagi.

The bottom Gavur Gölü was drained. With the damming of the Aksu 1972 Kartalkaya artificial reservoir created. It has a volume of 195 million m³, and irrigates about 27,000 hectares of land.

Counties

For the province include the counties of:

  • Center
  • Afşin (Kurdish Avşîn )
  • Andirin (Kurdish Dêrkolê )
  • Çağlayancerit (Kurdish Cirid )
  • Ekinözü (Kurdish: Cela )
  • Elbistan (Kurdish and Armenian Olbiston )
  • Göksun (Kurdish cokes )
  • Nurhak
  • Pazarcık (Kurdish Bazarcix )
  • Türkoğlu (Kurdish Êloxlî or Kirdoxlî )

Population

The population of the province of Kahramanmaras comprises mainly composed of Turks. The largest minority with 20 %, Kurds represents the most people are Sunni Muslim, but there are also many Alevis, of which, however, many have emigrated to the pogrom of Kahramanmaras in 1978 after Adana. Until the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 there was also a large Armenian community. Those survivors of the genocide who fled to Armenia, founded in Yerevan, Nork - Marash the district.

Traffic

Through a branch line Maras is connected to the train route Adana Malatya. A country road leading through Türkoglu to the motorway O -52 from Adana to Gaziantep. In addition, Kahramanmaras has an airport, which is 5 km from the city and the DHMI heard.

Others

The specialty of the region is the ice cream Maras Dondurması, traditionally made from goat's milk and the snow of the mountain Ahir Dagi. This ice has an elastic, bubble gum -like consistency until it melts. It came in the Guinness Book of Records, as it is spanned by electricity pylon to pylon electricity or anfror bus and then a crane lifted high over the ice.

Other specialties are Maras Içli kofte ( bulgur bags filled with walnut and meat), Eksili Çorbasi ( a salty - sour soup, with lots of herbs ) and Maras Tarhanasi. This dried plates in wheat dough with yogurt can be eaten plain or toasted, but also processed into soup. The ladle paça of soft meat is prepared in the province. The red hot chili from Maras and Fistik ezmesi ( a sweet made with pistachio puree) are also known.

Attractions

In the medieval citadel overlooking the town is an archaeological museum with a collection of Hittite sculptures from the region. In addition, there is to see some mosques, including the Ulu Cami of the 15th century and Hatuniye and Beyazit from the Ottoman era, Koran schools, of which particularly the Tas Medresesi from the 15th century is worth mentioning, and old churches. In addition, the city has a reservoir, several pastures with lakes, springs, waterfalls and limestone caves.

Famous people

  • Tufan Kıraç, Rock Musician
  • Fatma Kurtulan, MPs
  • Mahzuni Serif, singer, songwriter
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