Columbia Encyclopedia entry: Şanlıurfa
Şanlıurfashän′ləoor'fä, formerly Urfaoor'fä, city (1990 pop. 278,516), capital of Şanlıurfa prov., SE Turkey. It is the trade center for a productive agricultural region and one of the most rapidly growing cities in Turkey due to its position in the midst of a large-scale irrigation development, with significant textile-related industries. The city was called Edessa until its incorporation in the Ottoman Empire in 1637. Its once large Christian population—mostly Armenian—suffered severe massacres in the late 19th cent.
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Şanlıurfa, formerly cited as Edessa or in Kurdish; Riha , or in Armenian Urhai, Arabic الرها ar-Raha) is a city with 462,923 inhabitants in south-eastern Turkey, and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province. Urfa is situated on a plain under big open skies, about eighty kilometres east of the Euphrates River. The climate features extremely hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters. The urban population of Urfa is mainly Kurdish while the outlying regions are mixed Turkish and Arabian and to a lesser degree Zaza, Yezid, Armenian and Jewish.
The city has been known by many names in history: Ուռհա in Armenian,Urhai in Aramaic,...more »
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- Haran, ancient city, Mesopotamia
Haran or Harran, ancient city of Mesopotamia, now in SE Asian Turkey, 24 mi (39 km) SE of Şanlıurfa. It was an important center on the trade route from Nineveh to Carchemish and the seat of th...
- Edessa
Edessa, ancient city of Mesopotamia, on the site of modern Şanlıurfa, Turkey. It emerged in the 4th cent. B.C. as Orrhoe, or Arrhoe, and was later named Edessa by Seleucus I of Syria. From c.1...
