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Mardin is a city in southeastern Turkey. The capital of Mardin Province, it is known for the Artuqid architecture of its old city, and for its strategic location on a rocky hill near the Tigris River that rises steeply over the flat plains. The city has large populations of Arabs, Assyrians and Kurds. A 2013 […]
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Muğla is a city in south-western Turkey. Muğla is the center of the District of Menteşe and Muğla Province , which stretches along Turkey’s Aegean coast. Muğla’s center is situated inland at an altitude of 660 m and lies at a distance of about 30 km (19 mi) from the nearest seacoast in the Gulf […]
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Mersin (pronounced [ˈmæɾsin]) is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is part of an interurban agglomeration, the Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Area, and lies on the western part of Çukurova, a geographical, economic and cultural region. Mersin is an important hub of Turkey’s economy, and Turkey’s largest seaport is […]
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Maltepe is a district in the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey, on the northern shore of the Sea of Marmara. Its neighbouring districts are Kadıköy to the west, Kartal to the east and Ataşehir to the northwest. The population grew rapidly from the 70’s onwards when, following the building of the Bosphorus Bridge, it became […]
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Kırıkkale is the capital of the Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is located 80 km east of Ankara. According to the 2000 census, the population of the province is 280,834, of which 192,705 live in the city of Kırıkkale. The name of the city means broken castle. The town of […]
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Kilis is a city in south-central Turkey, near the border with Syria, and the administrative centre of Kilis Province. During the Ayyubid era, the Kurdish dynasty of Mand, or Mantashah, commenced. Mand, who allegedly traced his ancestry back to Abbas, had initially been given control of Qusayr, thereafter also of Joum and Kilis. His descendants […]
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Kocaeli Province is a province of Turkey and one of only two to not have the same official name as its capital, İzmit, which is thus also sometimes called Kocaeli. The province is the successor of the Ottoman-era Sanjak of Kocaeli. The largest towns in the province are İzmit and Gebze. The traffic code is […]
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Konya (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈkon.ja]) is a major city in south-central Turkey, on south-western edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau and is the seventh-most-populous city in Turkey with a metropolitan population of over 2.2 million. Konya is a large and industrially developed city and the capital of Konya Province. The Konya region has been inhabited since […]
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Kırklareli is a city in the European part of Turkey. It is not clearly known when the city was founded, nor under what name. The Byzantine Greeks called it Sarànta Ekklisiès (Σαράντα Εκκλησιές, meaning forty churches). In modern Greek is known with the same name, too. In the 14th century this was translated to Turkish […]
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Kırşehir, formerly Mocissus is a city in Turkey. It is the capital district of the Kırşehir Province. According to the 2000 census, the population of the district is 121,947 of which 105,826 live in the city of Kırşehir. History The history of Kırşehir dates back to the Hittites. During the period of the Hittites, the […]
