İslahiye
| İslahiye | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Gaziantep | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 2 ' N , 36 ° 38' E | |||
| Residents : | 66,170 (2013) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 342 | |||
| Postal code : | 27800 | |||
| License plate : | 27 | |||
| Structure and administration (status: 2014) | ||||
| Mayor : | Kemal Vural ( ACP ) | |||
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| İslahiye County | ||||
| Residents : | 66,170 (2013) | |||
| Surface: | 818 km² | |||
| Population density : | 81 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Resul Kır | |||
| Website (Kaymakam): | ||||
İslahiye ( Kurdish ئیسلاهیە Îslahiye orئاڤاسیم Avasîm ) is a city and the name of a district in the Turkish province of Gaziantep . 32,342 people lived in the city (as of 2012) and 66,170 people in the entire district (2013). İslahiye is located in the southwest of the province and borders the provinces of Hatay , Kilis , Osmaniye and Syria . In İslahiye there is a border crossing to the Syrian province of Aleppo . The border crossing is served by both freight trains and a weekly pair of trains on the Tehran - Van - Damascus connections for passenger traffic. A stretch of the Ottoman Baghdad Railway ran through İslahiye .
administration
In addition to the main town, there are four other small towns (tr: Belde), 49 villages (tr: Köy ) and 15 hamlets (tr: Mezra) in the district.
Personalities
- Aşık Ali Nurşani , poet and singer
Worth seeing
About 20 km south of İslahiye is the Hittite sculpture workshop of Yesemek . Seven kilometers to the east is the Tilmen Höyük settlement hill , where, among other things, a Middle Hittite palace was excavated. About ten kilometers north, near the road to Nurdağı , near the village of Zincirli, there is another archaeological site, the citadel of the late Hittite-Aramaic principality of Sam'al . Two late Hittite steles, İslahiye 1 and İslahiye 2 , were found in an Islamic cemetery on Mount Kazdağ near İslahiye in 1940 . They are now on display in the Adana Archaeological Museum .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( memento of October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed October 26, 2014
