Birecik

Birecik additionally previously known as Bir, Bire, Biradjik and amid the Crusades as Bile, is a town and locale of Sanlıurfa Province of Turkey, on the River Euphrates. Built on a limestone precipice 400 ft. high on the left/east bank of the Euphrates, "at the upper piece of a range of that waterway, which runs about north-south, and just beneath a sharp twist in the stream, where it pursues that course subsequent to originating from a long achieve streaming more from the west". Birecik Dam Cemetery is an Early Bronze Age graveyard close Birecik. You can come and explore this place.

It was utilized widely for around 500 years toward the start of the third thousand years BC. In excess of 300 graves were unearthed here in 1997 and 1998. The site was found amid the working of the Birecik Dam as a major aspect of the GAP project. Birecik Dam and hydroelectric power plant, some portion of the Southeastern Anatolia Project, is arranged inside the area. The Roman city of Zeugma is currently suffocated in the repository behind the dam. Zeugma's well known mosaics, including the 'stream god', have been taken to Gaziantep Museum, however some protected stays of Zeugma are shown in Birecik.