Location: Sanliurfa
Top Things to do in Sanliurfa
Things to do in Sanliurfa, Sanliurfa Province: The Best Ancient Ruins
Urfa, officially known as Şanlıurfa (pronounced [ʃanˈlɯuɾfa]; Arabic: الرها ar-Ruhā; Kurdish: Riha), and known in ancient times as Edessa, is a city with 561,465 inhabitants in south-eastern Turkey, and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province. Urfa is a multiethnic city with a Turkish, Kurdish, and Arab population. Urfa is situated on a plain about eighty kilometres east of the Euphrates River. Its climate features extremely hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters.
Restaurants in Sanliurfa
1. Gobekli Tepe
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
2. Potbelly Hill
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4.5 based on 748 reviews
Reviewed By CemEsmer - Mersin, Turkey
This place is such a masterpiece that change written history. It is oldest manmade structure in current history. You should also visit Sanliurfa Museum cause tools And statues from gobeklitepe are shown there
3. Sumatar (Sogmatar)
4. Gobekli Tepe
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4.5 based on 25 reviews
Reviewed By TugO_11 - London, United Kingdom
This is the oldest temple this planet is yet to find. This is where life began after the big floods and agriculture spread the planet from here.
5. Castle of Urfa
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4.0 based on 188 reviews
This place is temporarily closed
Reviewed By apricot44 - Turkey, null
The inner castle of the city of urfa, located on the northern border of the Fertile Crescent, which has been frequently mentioned by Neolithic excavations and archaeological finds in recent periods, was built longitudinally in the east-west direction.it is located south of the sacred Fish Lake and the city.the castle is a difficult Castle to capture thanks to the moat on the south side, formed by human hands and natural roads.2 columns entitled Corinth, seen from far away in the castle, are known as the columns in which the Prophet Abraham was thrown into the fire during the struggle of the Prophet Abraham with nemrut.archaeologically, these columns on the north-facing surface of the column in the east direction, it is understood from an Aramaic inscription that it was built by the kingdom of abgar, the local Kingdom of Urfa in the 3rd century AD.the Aramaic inscription contains the following sentences “ " I am Eftuha, son of the sun. I built these columns and the statue on them for Queen Shalmet, daughter of King Mano."According to the accounts of travelers and inscriptions, it is said that a palace belonging to the kingdom of orshone, which ruled Urfa between 2rd century BC and 3rd century AD, and villas belonging to noblemen were built on the hill where the castle was located . During the excavations of the castle, a large number of artifacts belonging to the Byzantine and Islamic period were found.it is possible to say that the castle took its final form today during the reign of the Abbasids.again, the coins recovered are believed to have been used extensively during the Byzantine,Ayyubid and Ottoman periods of the castle.
