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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, metropolitan municipality and the List of districts of Turkey, districts within the metropolitan municipalities will be second level municipalities. The law also creates new districts within the provinces in addition to present districts. These changes will be effective by the local elections in 2014. On local elections of 31 March 2019, Mehmet Canpolat from the Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected mayor. As Kaymakam Metin Esen was appointed. Thus after 2014 the present Şanlıurfa (Urfa) central district will be split into three. The eastern quarters of the city will be named ''Haliliye'' and the name Şanlıurfa will be reserved for the metropolitan municipality. (Haliliye refers to Halil İbr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Şanlıurfa
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 extremely hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters. About northeast of the city is the famous Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe, the world's oldest known temple, which was founded in the 10th millennium BC. The area was part of a network of the first human settlements where the agricultural revolution took place. Because of its association with Jewish, Christian, and Islamic history, and a legend according to which it was the hometown of Abraham, Urfa is nicknamed the "City of Prophets." Religion is important in Urfa. The city "has become a center of fundamentalist Islamic beliefs" and "is considered one of the most devoutly religious cities in Turkey". The city is located 30 miles from the Atatürk Dam, at the heart of the Southeast Anatol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 province is considered part of Turkish Kurdistan and has a Kurds, Kurdish majority with a significant Arabs, Arab and Turkish people, Turkish minority. Districts Şanlıurfa province is divided into 13 Districts of Turkey, districts (capital district in bold): * Urfa (Central district. In 2014 it was split into three districts: Eyyübiye, Haliliye and Karaköprü.) * Akçakale * Birecik * Bozova * Ceylanpınar * Halfeti * Harran * Hilvan * Siverek * Suruç * Viranşehir Geography Area 18,584 km2 (7,173 sq. miles), the largest province of Southeast Anatolia with: * Adıyaman to the north; * Syria to the south; * Mardin and Diyarbakır to the east; * Gaziantep to the west; Şanlıurfa includes several major components of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Districts Of Turkey
The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the ''kaza''. Most provinces bear the same name as their respective provincial capital districts. However, many urban provinces, designated as greater municipalities, have a center consisting of multiple districts, such as the provincial capital of Ankara province, The City of Ankara, comprising nine separate districts. Additionally four provinces, Kocaeli, Sakarya, İçel and Hatay have their capital district named differently from their province, as İzmit, Adapazarı, Mersin and Antakya respectively. A district may cover both rural and urban areas. In many provinces, one district of a province is designated the central district (''merkez ilçe'') from which the district is administered. The central district is administered by an appointed provincial deputy governor and other non-central districts b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boydere, Şanlıurfa
Boydere is a village in Turkey's Şanlıurfa Province, in its Haliliye district. As of the 1990 census, it had a population of 420. There is an archaeological mound located underneath the village; an archaeological survey here unearthed Early Bronze Age and Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...-era artifacts. References Villages in Şanlıurfa Province {{Şanlıurfa-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göktepe, Şanlıurfa
Göktepe is a village in Turkey's Şanlıurfa Province, in its Haliliye district. It is located by the Urfa-Viranşehir 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 Bronze Age as well as Roman and Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ... artifacts. As of the 1990 census, the village of Göktepe had a population of 239. References Villages in Şanlıurfa Province {{Şanlıurfa-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konuklu, Şanlıurfa
Konuklu is a neighborhood in the Haliliye district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. As of 2000, its population was 2,198 (1,133 male and 1,065 female). It is the site of Kazane Höyük, an archaeological site that covers 40 hectares, making it the largest in the Southeastern Anatolia Region. The site dates to the Halaf and Ubaid periods of the Chalcolithic era, the early Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. Excavation started in 1992 and as of 2008 an area of about 400 square meters has been excavated. Remains of houses from the late Chalcolithic were found with mud brick, adobe, and pisé Rammed earth is a technique for constructing foundations, floors, and walls using compacted natural raw materials such as earth, chalk, lime, or gravel. It is an ancient method that has been revived recently as a sustainable building method. ... walls and plastered floors. According to excavator Patricia Wattenmaker, the settlement at Kazane Höyük was a large town surrounded by thick city wall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulubağ, Şanlıurfa
Ulubağ is a village in Turkey's Şanlıurfa Province, in the eastern part of its Haliliye district. As of the 1990 census, it had a population of 338. The cemetery area in the north side of the village exists on top of an archaeological mound measuring 60 m in diameter and 3 m in height. An archaeological survey in 1963 encountered artifacts from the Chalcolithic (Halaf culture, Halaf and Ubaid period, Ubaid periods), early Bronze Age, and Roman Empire, Roman and Byzantine Empire, Byzantine periods. References Villages in Şanlıurfa Province {{Şanlıurfa-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
