Hassa is a municipality and
district
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of
Hatay Province
Hatay Province (, ) is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province ...
,
Turkey
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. Its area is 520 km
2, and its population is 56,675 (2022).
It is on the eastern side of the
Nur (Amanos) Mountains, looking towards the city of
Gaziantep
Gaziantep, historically Aintab and still informally called Antep, is a major city in south-central Turkey. It is the capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Medi ...
. It is on the
Antakya
Antakya (), Turkish form of Antioch, is a municipality and the capital Districts of Turkey, district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is . Prior to the devastating 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, 2023 earthquakes, its population was recorded ...
-
Malatya
Malatya (; ; Syriac language, Syriac ܡܠܝܛܝܢܐ Malīṭīná; ; Ancient Greek: Μελιτηνή) is a city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Malatya Province. The city has been a human settlement for thousands of y ...
road. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Hassa was part of the
Adana Vilayet of the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...
. Its population was predominantly Turkoman. Hassa was a district in
Cebel-i Bereket Province from 1923 to 1933 and then a part of Gaziantep Province until 1939.
Hassa is an olive-growing district. The olive trees were first brought there by
Ottoman governor
Derviş Paşa in the late 19th century. Hassa was heavily damaged by
powerful earthquakes in February 2023 and subsequent aftershocks. The same year it recorded the hottest temperature so far in Turkey as of 2023 at
Composition
There are 39
neighbourhoods
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in Hassa District:
Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
* 15 Kasım
* Akbez
* Akkülek
* Aktepe
* Ardıçlı
* Arpalıuşağı
* Aşağıkarafakılı
* Bademli
* Bintaş
* Buhara
* Çay
* Çınarbaşı
* Dedemli
* Demrek
* Dervişpaşa
* Eğribucak
* Gazeluşağı
* Girne
* Gülkent
* Gülpınar
* Güvenç
* Hacılar
* Haydarlar
* Katranlık
* Koruhüyük
* Küreci
* Mazmanlı
* Sapanözü
* Söğüt
Söğüt (, ) is a town in Bilecik Province, Turkey. It is the seat of Söğüt District.[ ...]
* Sugediği
* Tepebaşı
* Tiyek
* Yeni
* Yeniyapan
* Yoluklar
* Yukarıbucak
* Yukarıkarafakılı
* Yuvalı
* Zeytinoba
References
Populated places in Hatay Province
Districts of Hatay Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
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