Afşin

	Afşin
Basic data
Province (il) :	Kahramanmaraş
Coordinates :	38 ° 15 ' N , 36 ° 55' E Coordinates: 38 ° 15 '0 " N , 36 ° 55' 0" E
Height :	1230 m
Residents :	81,390 (2015)
Telephone code :	(+90) 344
Postal code :	46500
License plate :	46
Structure and administration (as of 2015)
Mayor :	Mehmet Fatih Güven ( AKP )
Website:	www.afsin.bel.tr
Afşin County
Residents :	81,390 (2015)
Surface:	1,428 km²
Population density :	57 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam :	Fatih Aksoy
Website (Kaymakam):	www.afsin.gov.tr

Afşin (pronounced Afschin ) is a city and a district in the Kahramanmaraş Province of Turkey .

population

According to the population estimate from 2015, the city has around 81,390 inhabitants together with the region. The income is mainly generated in agriculture and in the slowly developing industry in recent years.

Afşin is an old city with several ethnic groups, including Turks , Kurds as well as Armenians and Circassians .

Afşin County has produced many of the folk poets known as Aşık or Ozan. The most famous are Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, Aşık Mahrumi (Rahmi Kaya), Aladeli (Haydar Kaya) from Berçenek village, Aşık Yener (Hacı Yener) from Tanır , Aşık Maksudi (Osman Dağlı) from Arıtaş village, Aşık Kulören (Hasank Kulören) ) from the village of Emirilyas as well as Aşık Meçhuli, Perişan Güzel from the village of Kaşanlı and Ismail Ipek, Perişan Ali from the village of Örenli.

history

The history of the region goes back to 3000 BC. The old name of Afşin was Arabissos . Later the place was also called Efsus / Efesus and Yarpuz . He has been called Afşin since 1944.

Throughout the ages, the Hittites , Assyrians , Persians , Macedonians , Romans , Byzantines and in between the Arabs ruled in Afşin . Aramaic inscriptions have also come down to us from Arabissos . The Eastern Roman Emperor Maurikios was born in Arabissos in 539. In July 629, Emperor Herakleios and the Persian general and later Great King Shahrbaraz met in Arabissos. In the middle of the 7th century Arabissos was destroyed by the Arabs in the course of the Islamic expansion . After 1071 the Seljuks ruled over Afşin. From 1522 to 1922 Afşin belonged to the Ottoman Empire .

Attractions

In Tanır was 2009, on the banks of Hurman Çayı late Hittite rock inscription of Tanır from the 9th or 8th century BC. Discovered. About 25 kilometers north of the city lies the originally Byzantine fortress Hurman Kalesi above the Hurman Çayı . About five kilometers west of the city is Eshab-i-Keyf-Külliye, a complex of fortress, mosque and caravanserai. As one of several places in Turkey, it claims to be the location of the Cave of the Seven Sleepers .

literature

Gustav Hirschfeld : Arabissos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 364 f.

Web links

Commons : Afşin - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b http://www.yerelnet.org.tr/ilceler/ilce_nufus.php?ilceid=198696
^ Charles C. Torrey, The Bilingual Inscription from Sardis. The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 34/3, 1918, 186
↑ Clive Foss, The Persians in Asia Minor and the End of Antiquity. The English Historical Review 90, 1975, 727
^ Walter Kaegi, Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests (Cambridge 1992), p. 244.

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[2] Charles C. Torrey, The Bilingual Inscription from Sardis. The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 34/3, 1918, 186

[3] Clive Foss, The Persians in Asia Minor and the End of Antiquity. The English Historical Review 90, 1975, 727

[4] Walter Kaegi, Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests (Cambridge 1992), p. 244.