Nizip

Nae tae be confused wi Nusaybin.

Nizip
Coat airms
Kintra	Turkey
Province	Gaziantep
Govrenment
• Mayor	Hacı Fevzi Akdoğan (AKP)
• Kaymakam	Yaşar Karadeniz
Area
• Destrict	1046 km2 (404 sq mi)
Population  (2008)
• Urban	93,101
• Destrict	132018
• Destrict density	130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Post code	27700
Website	www.nizip.bel.tr

Nizip (Ottoman Turkish: نزيب‎ , Kurdish: Bêlqîs‎, Zazaki: Sêwrege) is a destrict o Gaziantep Province o sootheastren Turkey.

As o 2010, the population o the ceety is 96,229. It is locatit 45 km frae the ceety o Gaziantep, 95 km frae Şanlıurfa (Edessa), an 35 km frae Karkamış, which is an auld ceety kent historically as Gilgamesh an aw. It is quite near tae the auncient Roman ceeties o Zeugma an Rumkale, which means Roman Castle. The ceety is commonly ramfeeselt wi Nusaybin acause baith ceeties haed similar auncient names, which are Nisibis an Nisibin. Even in vera credible encyclopedias thare appear some confusions. Indeed, while Nizip is near the Euphrates river, Nusaybin is near the Tigris river. In excavation steids, valuable mosaics hae been foond, includin those of Triton, Dionysos' Weddin, Poseidon, Perseus, Gypsy Girl or Gaia, Dolphin an Eros, Physke, Akhilleus, Aphrodite's Birth, the God o Euphrates, an Europa.

In 1839, the Ottoman Empire an Egyp, which wis being ruled bi Muhammad Ali o Egyp (itherwise kent as Muhammad Ali Pasha), went tae war in the kintraside o Nizip on 24 Juin 1839. Acause o that, the war wis cried the Battle o Nezib.