Göktepe is a village in

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Şanlıurfa Province Şanlıurfa Province ( tr, Şanlıurfa ili; ku, Parêzgeha Rihayê) or simply Urfa Province is a province in southeastern Turkey. The city of Şanlıurfa is the capital of the province which bears its name. The population is 1,845,667 (2014). The ...

, in its

Haliliye Haliliye ( ku, Xelîlî) is a district and second level municipality in Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. According to Law act no 6360, all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750 000, will be a Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropol ...

district. It is located by the

Urfa Urfa, officially known as Şanlıurfa () and in ancient times as Edessa, is a city in southeastern Turkey and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province. Urfa is situated on a plain about 80 km east of the Euphrates River. Its climate features e ...

Viranşehir Viranşehir ( ku, Wêranşar) is a market town serving a cotton-growing area of Şanlıurfa Province, in southeastern Turkey, 93 km east of the city Şanlıurfa and 53 km north-west of Ceylanpınar at the Syrian border. In Late Antiquity ...

highway and the Mucid Dere stream. There is an archaeological mound located north of the village, measuring 80 m in diameter and 20 m in height. An archaeological survey in 1963 encountered Early and Middle

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as well as

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and

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artifacts. As of the 1990 census, the village of Göktepe had a population of 239.

References

Villages in Şanlıurfa Province {{Şanlıurfa-geo-stub