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Şanlıurfa is known that the city of the prophets,

One of the oldest cities on the world, the city where Adam and Eve lived, the city where Abraham was borned and lived, the city where Moses lived, the city where Elijah lived, the city where Jethro lived, the city where Job lived.

The city has been known by many names: ܐܘܪܗܝ, Urhāy in Syriac, Riha in Kurdish, الروها, Ar-Ruha in Arabic, Ուռհա, Urha in Armenian, Ορρα, Orrha in Greek (also Ορροα, Orrhoa). For a while it was named Callirrhoe or Antiochia on the Callirhoe (Greek: �'ντιόχεια η επί Καλλιρρόης). During Byzantine rule it was named Justinopolis. Although it is often best known by the name given it by the Seleucids, Εδεσσα, Edessa.

'Şanlı' means great, glorious, dignified in Turkish and Urfa was officially re-named Şanlıurfa (Urfa the Glorious) by the Turkish Grand National Assembly in 1984, in recognition of the local resistance in the Turkish War of Independence.

Şanlıurfa is the gateway of GAP geograpically, and with its industry, the trade volume has helped to develop GAP. Economically it effects 18 other cities.

Popular Hotels in Sanliurfa

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Sanliurfa Travel Blogs

My (first) time in Urfa
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May 24, 2008 – Jun 02, 2008
After we came back from our Harran tour and had some lunch in Urfa, we went to the University because Deniz had to prepare some things for the festival.His job was to hand out the t-shirts of his department of the university and check the list that everyone get s a shirt.Nagehan joined us and we al…
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Stunning Sanliurfa
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Jun 02, 2006 – Aug 24, 2009
People who contributed to and improved my trip:   I got into the bus terminal at Sanliurfa (The Prophets City, or Glorious Urfa) at 15.00, feeling quite exhausted after such a long day. According to the map it was less than a kilometre to walk to my hotel, so i decided that i could make this…
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This trip was featured on Wednesday November 22nd, 2006
Sanliurfa ( Urfa ) :  Eleven Minutes Past Seven
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Aug 24, 2008 – Oct 15, 2009
03.11am  Drums awaken me.  Drums before dawn.  Such drumming!  ‘BATTA-BATTA-BATTA-BANG-BADDA-BANG-BANG-BANG!!!’  One would have thought they were announcing the imminent End of Days.  But no.  We’re six days into Ramadan now and this is the crash and thunder…
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This trip was featured on Friday September 19th, 2008

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