Suruç

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Suruc ( Syro -Aramaic ܣ ܪ ܘ ܓ Serug ) is a city and the name of a district in the Turkish province of Şanlıurfa in southeast Anatolia. The city has 57 878 ​​Suruc and the county 102,109 inhabitants ( 2008). Suruc located in the southwest of the province and borders Syria.

In ancient times the city was called Batnae and was the suburb of Anthemusia ( cf. Amm Marc 14, 3, 3: .. Batnae municipium in Anthemusia conditum Macedonum manu priscorum, from the Euphrates flumine brevi spatio disparatur ). In 115 Trajan subdued the place where the local dynast Sporakes submission refused ( Cass. Dio 68, 23, 2, . Eutr 8, 3, 1, 20 hard, 2. ).