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Şanlıurfa

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Settlement.name: Urfa
Settlement.official_name: Şanlıurfa
Settlement.settlement_type: City
Settlement.image_caption: Clockwise from top: View of Urfa, Urfa Castle, Ayn Zeliha, St. Johannes Prodromos Addai Church, Rizvaniye Mosque
Settlement.nicknames: "City of Prophets", "Urfa the Glorious"
Settlement.pushpin_map: Turkey#Near East
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Turkey
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Şanlıurfa
Settlement.leader_party: Independent
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor

Article

72 sections

Contents

Name
History
Prehistory
Bronze Age
City of Edessa
Roman rule
Late antiquity
Age of Islam
11th century
County of Edessa
Sieges of 1144 and 1146
Zengid and Ayyubid rules
Mongol rule
Mamluk and Aq Qoyunlu rules
Ottoman period
19th century
World War I and after
21st century
Geography
Climate
Main sights
The citadel
Old city walls
Balıklıgöl
Halil ür-Rahman Cami
Ayn Zeliha
Haleplibahçe museum complex
Kızılkoyun necropolis
Grand Mosque
Kapalı Çarşı
Gümrük Hanı
Bedesten
Tabakhane Cami
Kara Meydanı
Parks
Gallery
Religious significance
Politics
Demographics
History
Language
Present-day
Syrian refugees
Economy
Handicrafts
Limestone quarrying
Industrial zones
Organized Industrial Zone
Evren Industrial Estate
Culture
Cuisine
Hospitality
Literature
Traditional house architecture
Local Turkish dialect
Education
Harran University
Former vocational schools
Mekteb-i Sanayi
Urfa Girls' Institute
Urfa Institute of Art for Boys
Health
Old state hospital
Şanlıurfa Balıklıgöl State Hospital
Şanlıurfa Training and Research Hospital
Mehmet Akif İnan Training and Research Hospital
Transport
Twin towns and sister cities
See also
Notes
References
External links

Urfa, officially called Şanlıurfa ( ), is a city in southeastern Turkey and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province. The city was known as Edessa from Hellenistic times and into Christian times. Urfa is situated on a plain about east of the Euphrates. 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.