Şanlıurfa Province

Şanlıurfa (Arabic الرها, DMG Raha, Kurdish Riha, Syro -Aramaic ܐ ܘ ܪ ​​ܗ ܝ Urhoy ) is a province in the Republic of Turkey. It is located in Southeastern Anatolia and shares land borders with Syria. In the east, the province of Mardin is located in the west Gaziantep, Adiyaman in the north and north-eastern Diyarbakir. In 2007, she counted 1,523,099 inhabitants.

The capital of the province also called Şanlıurfa.

In the province once lived very many Yazidis, especially in the areas around Viranşehir, Suruc and Birecik.

In 1983, the province and the capital, which until then only Urfa were called, the title Şanlı awarded ( to German glorious ). He should remember the resistance against the French occupation in the Turkish War of Liberation.

Counties

  • Şanlıurfa
  • Akçakale (Arabic التل الأبيض, DMG Tall Abyad )
  • Birecik ( kurd. Bêrecûg )
  • Bozova ( kurd. Hewenc )
  • Ceylanpınar ( kurd. Serê Kaniyê )
  • Halfeti ( kurd. Xalûfat )
  • Harran (Arabic حران, DMG Harran )
  • Hilvan ( kurd. Curnê Res)
  • Siverek ( zaza. Süreg )
  • Suruc
  • Viranşehir

Attractions

Located in the province of Şanlıurfa

  • The prehistoric place of worship Gobekli Tepe
  • The relics of Harran
  • The ruins of the likely Sabian worship of Sumatar

Personalities

  • Alexius of Edessa († 430 ), hermit and saint
  • Bardesanes of Edessa ( 154-222 ), Syrian- Aramaic theologian
  • Müslüm Gürses (1953-2013), singer and actor
  • Bülent İnal, actor
  • Murat Karayilan, Chairman of the Kurdistan Workers' Party
  • Abdullah Ocalan, President of the Kurdistan Workers' Party
  • Aysel Özakın, writer
  • Ahmet Özhan, singer
  • Şivan Perwer, singer
  • Seyyal Taner, singer and actress
  • İbrahim Tatlıses, singer and actor
  • Theodore Abū Qurra († 830 ), Christian thinker Arabic
  • Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya, Attorney General
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