Halfeti
| Halfeti | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Şanlıurfa | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 15 ' N , 37 ° 52' E | |||
| Residents : | 9,609 (2008) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 414 | |||
| Postal code : | 63 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 63 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2016) | ||||
| Mayor : | Mustafa Bayram ( HDP ) | |||
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| Halfeti district | ||||
| Residents : | 40,747 (2008) | |||
| Surface: | 643 km² | |||
| Population density : | 63 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Huseyin Avcı | |||
| Website (Kaymakam): | ||||
Halfeti ( Ottoman روم قلعه Rumkale , Kurdish Xelfetî ) is a district in the province of Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey . The district town of the same name Eski Halfeti (Turkish for old Halfeti ) lies on the banks of the Euphrates . It is located 120 km west of the provincial capital Şanlıurfa . The population of Halfeti County is 40,747 (2008), of which 9,609 people live in Eski Halfeti. The majority of the population lives in the surrounding villages.
Since the implementation of the Southeast Anatolia Project , many of the villages built on the Euphrates have been under water. At the end of 1999, Eski Halfeti was two-thirds flooded. As a result, the prayer halls of an Ottoman mosque are ankle-deep under water. Right in front of the mosque you can see how the roof of an entire house rises above the water level.
Due to the flooding of the city, many locals have emigrated to the surrounding areas. The Turkish government then had the city rebuilt seven kilometers east. The newly created settlement is called Yeni Halfeti (Turkish for New Halfeti ). Yeni Halfeti was built on the area of the Kurdish village of Karaotlak and merges with the surrounding villages to form a large, comparatively modern city. The former villages became urban districts.
Attractions in Halfeti
There are countless caves and historical buildings in Halfeti County, many of which have fallen into disrepair.
Değ Firmen Deresi
Değ Firmen Deresi (Turkish for mill stream ) is a natural canyon in Eski Halfeti. The entrance to the gorge is near the banks of the Euphrates. It has a rich natural vegetation: wild fig trees adorn the opening of Değirmen Deresi with other wild plants. A small, natural path leads the visitor into the gorge. A small stream flows down from the gorge into the Euphrates.
The gorge is not very wide and has a V shape. Like all the hills in this area, it is made of limestone . Many small watercourses that flow down from the steep cliffs of the canyon leave light and dark stripe patterns. Lichen forms dark stripes and sinter deposits form light stripes. The limestone surface of the opposite slopes is either streaked or covered by bush-like plants. The flowing water crosses the limestone floor irregularly and finally unites into a single stream that seeks its way to the Euphrates. Once people wanted to use water power and cut a straight stream path into the limestone soil, on which they probably built small mills. The mills must have given this gorge its current name.
The wet limestone soil is partially covered by fertile mud that was washed down and overgrown with green.
There is a two meter high waterfall in Değirmen Deresi. A little further you can see the ruins of a stone hut and several grottos .
One of the slopes is shaped like a four-meter-high, stone wave, under which the wet hiking trail passes. Its smooth, bare surface is orange-rusty in color and striped in different light colors in the vertical direction. It hangs over and is around 50 meters long. The stream must once have been so powerful that it carved the rock it hit into a wave shape. It forms pools of water across the entire gorge that are used by the locals as bathing areas in summer.
Değ Firmen Deresi is a popular excursion and picnic spot for the residents of Halfeti.
Buk û Zava
Buk û Zava (Kurdish bride and groom ) is a still unexplored grotto system near the Kurdish village of Sırataşlar . The grotto system has nine floors and is about 40 meters high. The cave shows multiple treatments, the purpose and the age of the complex are unknown.
Other attractions are:
- the church of Nuhrut
- the Armenian church in the village of Cibin (today part of the village mosque)
- Zaretê Karababa (Karababas Tomb)
- Darê Zaretê (four large, ancient oak trees on a lonely hill)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed November 26, 2009
- ↑ Tahir Sezen: Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla) . TC Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 423.
- ↑ halfeti.meb.gov.tr: Halfeti Millî Eğitim Bakanlığı. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 24, 2009 ; Retrieved May 9, 2008 (Turkish).
