Sanliurfa Province

Şanlıurfa
Province number:	63
Counties
Basic data
Coordinates:	37 ° 15 ' N , 39 ° 3' E Coordinates: 37 ° 15 ' N , 39 ° 3' E
Provincial capital:	Şanlıurfa
Region:	Southeast Anatolia
Surface:	18,584 km²
Population:	1,940,627 (2016)
Population density:	104.42 inhabitants / km²
Political
Governor:	Güngör Azim Tuna
Seats in Parliament:	12
Structural
Telephone code:	0414
Features :	63
Website
	www.sanliurfa.gov.tr (Turkish)

Şanlıurfa ( Arabic الرها, DMG ar-Ruhā , Kurdish Riha , Syriac ܐܘܪܗܝ Urhoy ) is a province in the Republic of Turkey . It is located in southeastern Anatolia and borders Syria in the south . Mardin Province is to the east, Gaziantep to the west, Adıyaman to the north and Diyarbakır to the northeast . In 2016 it had 1,940,627 inhabitants. The capital of the province is also called Şanlıurfa .

In 1983 the province and the capital, which until then were only called Urfa, were given the title şanlı (in German “glorious”). It is intended to commemorate the resistance against the French occupation in the Turkish war of liberation .

Counties

Şanlıurfa has been a large city ( Büyükşehir belediyesi ) since 2012 . After an administrative reform in 2014, all districts are directly subordinate to the Lord Mayor of Şanlıurfa. The former mayors of the municipalities ( Belediye ) were downgraded to the rank of Muhtar . The central district ( Merkez ) was divided into three new districts (Eyyübiye, Haliliye and Karaköprü) as part of the reform. All 13 rural districts are also urban districts:

Akçakale ( Arabic التل الأبيض, DMG at-Tall al-Abyaḍ )
Birecik ( Kurdish Bêrecûg )
Bozova ( Kurdish Hewag )
Ceylanpınar ( Kurdish Serê Kaniyê )
Eyyübiye
Halfeti ( Kurdish Xalûfat )
Haliliye

Harran ( Arabic حران, DMG Ḥarrān )
Hilvan ( Kurdish Curnê Res )
Karaköprü
Siverek ( Zazaisch Süreg )
Suruç ( Kurdish Pirsûs )
Viransehir

Attractions

Located in the province of Sanliurfa

the prehistoric cult site Göbekli Tepe
the relics of Harran
the ruins of the likely Sabian cult site of Sumatar

Personalities

Alexius von Edessa († around 430), hermit and saint
Bardesanes of Edessa (154–222), Syrian-Aramaic theologian
Al-Battani (850 / 869–929), Arab astronomer of the early Middle Ages
Ibn Taimiya (1263-1328), Islamic scholar
Müslüm Gürses (1953–2013), singer and actor
Bülent İnal , actor
Murat Karayılan , leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party
Abdullah Öcalan , leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party
Aysel Özakın , writer
Ahmet Özhan , singer
Şivan Perwer , singer
Seyyal Taner , singer and actress
İbrahim Tatlıses , singer and actor
Theodor Abū Qurra († around 830), Christian thinker of the Arabic language
Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya , Attorney General

Web links

Commons : Sanliurfa Province - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Turkish Institute for Statistics , accessed December 24, 2017
^ Website of the Province of Sanliurfa

[1] Turkish Institute for Statistics , accessed December 24, 2017

[2] Website of the Province of Sanliurfa