Sanliurfa

Sanliurfa is a city with 561,465 occupant in south-eastern Turkey, and the capital of Sanlıurfa Province. Sanliurfa is a multiethnic city with a Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian and Arab populace. Sanliurfa is arranged on a plain around 80 kilometers east of the Euphrates River. Its atmosphere includes to a great degree sweltering, dry summers and cool, sodden winters.

The historical backdrop of Urfa is recorded from the fourth century BC, yet may go back at any rate to 9000 BC, when there is sufficient proof for the encompassing locales at Duru, Harran and Nevali Cori. Within the further zone of the city are three neolithic destinations known: Gobekli Tepe, Gurcutepe and the city itself, where the life-sized limestone "Urfa Man" statue was found amid an uncovering in Balikligol and is currently in plain view at the Sanlıurfa Archeology and Mosaic Museum. The city was one of a few in the upper Euphrates-Tigris bowl, the ripe bow where horticulture started.

As per Jewish and Muslim convention, Urfa is Ur Kasdim, the main residence of Abraham. This distinguishing proof was debated by Leonard Woolley, the excavator of the Sumerian city of Ur in 1927 and researchers stay isolated on the issue. Urfa is additionally one of a few urban areas that have customs related with Job. For the Armenians, Sanliurfa is viewed as a blessed place since it is trusted that the Armenian letter set was concocted.