Harran
Sign in to saveHarran is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 904 km2, and its population is 96,072 (2022). It is approximately southeast of Urfa and from the Syrian border crossing at Akçakale.
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Harran is a municipality and district in southeastern Turkey's Şanlıurfa Province, covering an area of 904 square kilometers with a population of about 96,000 people. Located near both the city of Urfa and the Syrian border, it serves as an important settlement in this region of Turkey.
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- The Harran plain
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- 1
- Turkey place.province
- Şanlıurfa
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- MHP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Mahmut Özyavuz
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 904
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 360
- Turkey place.population_total
- 96072
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
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28 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Early history
- Middle and Late Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Antiquity (539 BC–640)
- Middle Ages (640–1271)
- Harran under the caliphates
- Late Middle Ages
- Later history (1271–present)
- Town
- Monuments and ruins
- City walls
- Beehive houses
- Modern buildings
- Geography and climate
- Composition
- Demographics
- Language
- Tourism
- Politics
- Archaeology
- Notable people
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Web
Harran is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 904 km2, and its population is 96,072 (2022). It is approximately southeast of Urfa and from the Syrian border crossing at Akçakale.
Harran was founded at some point between the 25th and 20th centuries BC, possibly as a merchant colony by Sumerian traders from Ur. Over the course of its early history, Harran rapidly grew into a major Mesopotamian cultural, commercial and religious center. It was made a religiously and politically influential city through its association with the moon-god Sin; many prominent Mesopotamian rulers consulted with and renovated the moon-temple of Eḫulḫul in Harran. Harran came under Assyrian rule under Adad-nirari I ( BC) and became a provincial capital often second in importance only to the Assyrian capital of Assur itself. During the collapse of the Assyrian Empire, Harran briefly served as the final capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (612–609 BC).
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