Gaziantep Province

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Gaziantep Province
Gaziantep ili
—  Province o Turkey  —
Location o Gaziantep Province in Turkey
Kintra Turkey
Region Sootheastren Anatolie
Caipital Gaziantep
Aurie
 - Total 6,000 km2 (2,316.6 sq mi)
Indwallers (2010-12-31)[1]
 - Total 1,700,763
 Densitie 283.5/km2 (734.2/sq mi)
Aurie code(s) 0342
Vehicil registration 27
Wabsteid gaziantep.gov.tr

Gaziantep Province (Turkis: Gaziantep ili ‎) is a province in sooth-central Turkey. Its caipital is the ceety o Gaziantep which haed a population o 853,513 as o 2000. Its neighbours are Adıyaman tae the north, Şanlıurfa tae the east, Sirie an Kilis at sooth, Hatay at soothwast, Osmaniye tae the wast an Kahramanmaraş tae the northwast.

An important tradin center syne auncient times, the province is an aa ane o Turkey's major manufacturin zones, an its agricultur is dominatit bi the growin o pistachio nuts.

In auncient times, first the Hittites an later the Assyrians controlled the region. It saw hintle fechtin durin the Crusades, an Saladin wan a key battle there in 1183. Efter Warld War I an Ottoman Empire's disintegration, it wis invadit bi the forces o the French Third Republic durin the Turkis War o Unthirldom. It wis returned tae Turkis control efter the Treaty o Lausanne wis signed, formally endin hostilities atween Turkey an the Allies o Warld War I.

Oreeginally kent as Antep, the title gazi (meaning veteran in Turkis) wis addit tae the province's an the provincial caipital's name in 1921, due tae its population's extraordinary courage durin the Turkis War o Unthirldom.

Kilis Province wis ance pairt o the Gaziantep Province.

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Geology[edit]

Twa major active geological faults meet in wastren Gaziantep near the border wi adjoinin Adana Province: the Deid Sea Transform an the East Anatolian Fault. These represent the tectonic boundary atween the northward-muivin Arabian Plate tae the east, an the convergin African an Eurasian Plates tae the wast.

Geography[edit]

Gaziantep is traversed bi the northeasterly line o equal latitude an langitude.

Destricts[edit]

A view frae Gaziantep castle

Gaziantep province is dividit intae 9 destricts (destricts o the ceety Gaziantep in bauld):

References[edit]

  1. Turkish Statistical Institute, MS Excel document – Population of province/district centers and towns/villages and population growth rate by provinces

Freemit airtins[edit]

Coordinates: 37°02′26″N 37°18′25″E / 37.04056°N 37.30694°E / 37.04056; 37.30694