Kahramanmaraş Province kurdish( tr, Kahramanmaraş ili ) is a
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
. Its provincial capital is the city of
Kahramanmaraş
Marash (Armenian: Մարաշ), officially Kahramanmaraş () and historically Germanicea (Greek: Γερμανίκεια), is a city in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey and the administrative center of Kahramanmaraş Province. Before 1973, Kahrama ...
, the
traffic code
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is 46.
Geography
Kahramanmaraş is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude.
Districts
Kahramanmaraş province is divided into 10
districts
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Kahramanmaraş
Marash (Armenian: Մարաշ), officially Kahramanmaraş () and historically Germanicea (Greek: Γερμανίκεια), is a city in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey and the administrative center of Kahramanmaraş Province. Before 1973, Kahrama ...
(Central district, soon to be split into
Dulkadiroğlu and
Onikişubat Onikişubat is a district and second level municipality in Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. According to Law No 6360, any Turkish province with a population of more than 750,000 is classed as a metropolitan municipality, and the districts within t ...
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Afşin
Afşin is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey.
Afşin-Elbistan power stations
Two coal fired power stations are operational and are said to be damaging health via air pollution
Air po ...
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Andırın
Andırın is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located m ...
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Çağlayancerit
Çağlayancerit is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey.
Etymology
The name of the district comes from the Turkoman tribe of Jerid.
2009 helicopter crash
On March 25, 2009, Great Union Party's ...
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Ekinözü
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Elbistan
Elbistan ( 1ca, Ablasta, Ablastayn, Ablastin, Ablistan;Aksüt, Ali"''On the Alevism of Elbistan, Nurhak, Ekinozu and Afsin - Elbistan Nurhak Ekinözü Afşin Aleviliği Üzerine - Zum Alevitentum in Elbistan, Nurhak, Ekinözü und Afşin''"- Alevi ...
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Göksun
Göksun ( gr, Κυκυσός, ''Kykysós'', or Κουκουσός, ''Koukousós''; Latin: ''Coxon'' or ''Cucusus;'' Armenian: ''Կոկիսոն'') is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, near one of ...
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Nurhak
Nurhak ( ku, Nûrheq) is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The district has a population of 12,323 as of 2021.
Composition
The district is populated by Kurds and Turks
Turk or Turks may refer ...
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Pazarcık
Pazarcık is a town and district in the southern part of Kahramanmaraş Province in Turkey. The mayor Hayrettin Güngör from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected in the local elections 2019. Kaymakam is Adil Nas. The cement plan ...
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Türkoğlu
Health
Air pollution in Turkey
Air pollution in Turkey is the most lethal of the nation's environmental issues, with almost everyone across the country exposed to more than World Health Organization guidelines. Over 30,000 people die each year from air pollution-related illn ...
is a chronic problem here, in part due to the coal-fired
Afşin-Elbistan power stations.
Economy
Kahramanmaraş has historically been famous for its
gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...
. The
textile industry
The textile industry is primarily concerned with the design, production and distribution of yarn, cloth and clothing. The raw material may be natural, or synthetic using products of the chemical industry.
Industry process
Cotton manufacturi ...
is relatively new and mostly machinated.
Education
The
Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Universitybr>
is a recently founded university supplying social, language and technical sciences as well as
medicine, medical education.
Cuisine
The province's most famous culinary speciality is Dondurma, also called "
Maraş ice cream", available in specialist Ice Cream shops throughout Turkey. The ice cream has an elastic consistency and is served with knife and fork, often accompanied by a slice of
baklava
Baklava (, or ; ota, باقلوا ) is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey. It was one of the most popular sweet pastries of Ottoman cuisine.
The pre- Ottoman origin of the ...
. It melts in the mouth while chewed, with a consistency similar to bubble gum.
Maraş
red peppers (called 'kırmızı biber') are also well known for its aroma,
Vitamin C
Vitamin C (also known as ascorbic acid and ascorbate) is a water-soluble vitamin found in citrus and other fruits and vegetables, also sold as a dietary supplement and as a topical 'serum' ingredient to treat melasma (dark pigment spots) an ...
content, and moderate hotness. Maraş pepper is different from far-east chilies as dried with support of Scientific Investigations and Universities which contains no
aflatoxin
Aflatoxins are various poisonous carcinogens and mutagens that are produced by certain molds, particularly ''Aspergillus'' species. The fungi grow in soil, decaying vegetation and various staple foodstuffs and commodities such as hay, sweetcorn ...
and no diseases.
See also
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Düzbağ
References
External links
Kahramanmaraş Weather Forecast InformationKahramanmaraş City PortalKahramanmaraş News
Towns of Ottoman Syria
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