AREA: 7.642 km²
POPULATION: 1.140.594 (1990)
TRAFFIC CODE: 27
DISTRICTS: Gaziantap (center), Araban, İslahiye, Karkamış, Nizip, Oğuzeli, Nurdağı, Şahinbey, Şehitkamil, Yavuzeli.
SITES OF INTEREST: Düllükbaba forest recreation area, Zincirli, Gedikli, Tilmen, Kırışkal and Sakçagözü (Sakçagöze) tumuluses, Dolikhe (Dülük), Kuzeyne, Korus, Belkıs and Karkamış (Kargamış) settlement ruins from antiquity Yesemek statutes, Gaziantep, Tilbaşar, Rumkale, Karacaören and Ravanda castles, Ömeriye, Boyacı (Kadı Kemaleddin) Eyüpoğlu, Esenbek (İhsan Bey), Ali Nacar (Annacar), Ali Dola (Ala’üd Devle), Tahtalı, Ağa, Handaliye, Alaybey, Şeyh Fethullah, Şirvani (İki Şerefeli), Akcurun, Canbolat Bey, Şeyh,Şeyhler, Hindioğlu and Çalık mosques, Ramazaniye (Ahmed Çelebi) old theological school (medrese), Şeker, Pasha, Hışva, Emir Ali, Millet, Kürkçü and Belediye Inns, Zincirli and Kemikli bazaars, Eski, Pasha, Şıh, Pazar, Naip, Tabak, Hoca, Hasan Bey and Tuğlu baths, Şeyh Abdullah Efendi Lodge, Debbağhane, Aynülleben, Yazıcık, Babilke and IV. Murad bridges, Gaziantep Museum.
Provincial Cultural Directorate
Tel: (342) 232 18 58
Fax: (342) 234 06 04
State Fine Arts Gallery Directorate
İl Halk Kütüphanesi
GAZİANTEP
Tel: (0 342) 231 82 52
Fax: 234 06 04
Museums
Archeology Museum
Address: İstasyon cad. - Gaziantep
Tel: (342) 231 11 71
Fax: (342) 210 30 17
Ethnography Museum
Address: Eyüboğlu Mah. Hanifioğlu Sok. No: 64 -
Gaziantep
Tel: (342) 230 47 21
Hasan Süzer Etnography Museum
Historical Sites and Ruins
Belkız-Zeugma - Nizip/Belkıs
Yesemek - İslahiye/Yesemek
Tilmen - İslahiye/Tilme
Dülük Örenyeri - Şeyit
Kamil/Dülük
Significant Days
Local Days of Celebration:
Arrival of Atatürk at Gaziantep
Gaziantep
26 Ocak
Bestowement of Gazi (Veteran)Title to Gaziantep
Gaziantep
8 February
Mercidabık Victory
Gaziantep
24 August
Freedom from Occupation Days:
Freedom Day - Kilis
Kilis
7 December
Freedom Day - Gaziantep and Commemoration of the Martyr
Gaziantep
25 December
Festivals:
Aba Wrestling Tournament
Gaziantep
May
Pistachioe Festival and Aba Wrestling Tournament
Gaziantep
September
Cumhuriyet Cup Aba Wrestling Tournament
Gaziantep
29 October
Expositions:
Low - Cost Garments and Food Exposition
Gaziantep
5 June-5 July
Gaziantep Industrial Exposition
Gaziantep
15 August-15 September
Festivities:
Freedom from Occupation Celebrations
Gaziantep
25 December
Top Picture: Folklore
Bottom Picture: Textile
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I can’t do better than the Encyclopaedia Brittanica: situated near the Sacirsuyu, a tributary of the Euphrates, in limestone hills north of Aleppo, Syria.The city was strategically situated near ancient trade routes, and recent excavations have unearthed fragments of pottery indicating settlement there in the early 4th millennium BC. Known as Hamtap in the Middle Ages, the city was an important stronghold guarding the Syrian routes and was captured by Turks in 1183. Thereafter it changed hands among various Turkmen and Arab dynasties and Mongol and Timurid invaders until its final absorption into the Ottoman Empire in the early 16th century. Called Ayntab (Arabic ‘Ayntab: “Good Spring”) under the Ottomans, it was occupied by the British in 1919 and by the French until 1921. By then it had become a centre of Turkish nationalist resistance to European occupation. Upon its return to Turkey in 1922, Mustafa Kemal (later called Atatürk), founder of the republic, renamed it in honour of its heroic stand (Turkish gazi, “champion of Islam”).GaziAntep…
August 1st, 2007 at 9:14 am
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