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Karkamış district
Karkamış, formerly Carablus, is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 298 km2, and its population is 9,379 (2022). It is next to the site of ancient Carchemish.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Karkamış
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- File:Euphrates from The Mound of Carchemish. Accidents of an antiquary's life. 1910.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Euphrates River from Karkamış, 1910
- Turkey place.image_map
- Gaziantep location Karkamış.png
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Karkamış District in Gaziantep Province
- Turkey place.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Turkey place.province
- Gaziantep
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AK Party
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Mustafa Güzel
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 298
- Turkey place.population_total
Article
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Composition
- Demographics
- Archeology
- Border Crossing
- References
Karkamış, formerly Carablus, is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 298 km2, and its population is 9,379 (2022). It is next to the site of ancient Carchemish.
It is a border checkpoint on the road to Jarabulus in Syria.