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Viranşehir
Sign in to saveViranşehir () is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 2,297 km2, and its population is 207,315 (2022). It is a market town serving a cotton-growing area, 93 km east of the city Şanlıurfa and 53 km north-west of Ceylanpınar at the Syrian border. In Late Antiquity, it was known as Constantina or Constantia () by the Romans and Byzantines, and Tella by the local Assyrian/Syriac population.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Viranşehir
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Mardin yolu - Viranşehir, Şanlıurfa.jpg
- Turkey place.image_map
- Şanlıurfa location Viranşehir.PNG
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Viranşehir District in Şanlıurfa Province
- Turkey place.province
- Şanlıurfa
- Turkey place.leader_party
- DEM
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Serhat Dicle Inan
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 2297
- Turkey place.population_total
- 207315
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 63700
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0414
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Şanlıurfa Province
- Population
- 195910
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Head of government
- Leyla Güven
- Shares border with
- Derik district
- Official website
- www.viransehir.bel.tr
- Image
- Mardin yolu - Viranşehir, Şanlıurfa.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- rural population
- 37179
- Commons category
- Viranşehir
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Viranşehir
- urban population
- 200267
- name in kana
- コンスタンティア
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Modern city
- Composition
- Notable people
- References
Viranşehir () is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 2,297 km2, and its population is 207,315 (2022). It is a market town serving a cotton-growing area, 93 km east of the city Şanlıurfa and 53 km north-west of Ceylanpınar at the Syrian border. In Late Antiquity, it was known as Constantina or Constantia () by the Romans and Byzantines, and Tella by the local Assyrian/Syriac population.
== History ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viranşehir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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