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The Best Attractions In Sanliurfa Province

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The Best Attractions In Sanliurfa Province

  • 1. Balikligol Sanliurfa
    Urfa, officially known as Şanlıurfa and known in ancient times as Edessa, is a city with 2.031 million inhabitants in south-eastern Turkey, and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province. Urfa is a multiethnic city with a Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian and Arab population. Urfa is situated on a plain about eighty kilometres east of the Euphrates River. Its climate features extremely hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters.
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  • 2. Potbelly Hill Sanliurfa
    Göbekli Tepe , Turkish for Potbelly Hill, is an archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, approximately 12 km northeast of the city of Şanlıurfa. The tell has a height of 15 m and is about 300 m in diameter. It is approximately 760 m above sea level. The tell includes two phases of use believed to be of a social or ritual nature dating back to the 10th–8th millennium BCE. During the first phase, belonging to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A , circles of massive T-shaped stone pillars were erected – the world's oldest known megaliths. More than 200 pillars in about 20 circles are currently known through geophysical surveys. Each pillar has a height of up to 6 m and weighs up to 10 tons. They are fitted into sockets that were hewn out of the bedrock. In the second ...
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  • 4. Harran Ruins Harran
    Harran was a major ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia whose site is near the modern village of Altınbaşak, Turkey, 44 kilometers southeast of Şanlıurfa. The location is in a district of Şanlıurfa Province that is also named Harran. A few kilometers from the village of Altınbaşak are the archaeological remains of ancient Harran, a major commercial, cultural, and religious center first inhabited in the Early Bronze Age III period. It was known as Ḫarrānu in the Assyrian period; Paddan-Aram/Ḫaran, transliterated as Charan from the Hebrew Bible; Charran/Kharan from Armenian texts, Carrhae under the Roman and Byzantine empires; Hellenopolis in the Early Christian period; and Ḥarrān in the Islamic period. It is mentioned, in Movses Khorenatsi's and Mikayel Chamchian's History of A...
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