Gaziantep

Gaziantep is a town of Turkey, Préfecture of the Province of the same name, located at the south-east of the Anatolia or the North-West of the Mésopotamie.

Named Aintab by the Arabs, Antep by the Turks, it belonged to the Vilayet of Alep under the Ottoman Empire. To greet the resistance of its inhabitants Turkish against the Allied and the Armenian in 1920, it was famous Gaziantep (Antep the casualty).

Industrial pole in an area relatively little developed, it counts a population estimated at 860.000 inhabitants.

The kitchen of Gaziantep is famous. One finds specialities there such as:

the Pistachio of Antep;
the Baklava S (pastry making made of superimposed sheets of paste, filled of chopped dry fruits and covered with Honey);
the lahmacun, kind of Pizza pie to the spiced chopped meat;
the kebap (roasted meat).

To visit

forest National park of Düllükbaba
Tumulus de Zincirli, of Gedikli, Tilmen, Kırışkal and Sakçagözü (Sakçagöze),
Vestiges of cities of the first period of Dolikhe (Dülük), Kuzeyne, Korus, Belkıs and Karkamış (Kargamış),
Statue S antiques of Yesemek, Citadel S of Gaziantep, Tilbaşar, Rumkale, Karacaören and Ravanda
Mosque S of Ömeriye, Boyacı (Kadı Kemaleddin) Eyüpoğlu, of Esenbek (İhsan Bey), Ali Nacar (Annacar), Ali Dola (Ala' üd Devle), of Tahtalı, Ağa, Handaliye, Alaybey, Şeyh Fethullah, Şirvani (Şerefeli İki), Akcurun, Canbolat Bey, Şeyh, Şeyhler, Hindioğlu and Çalık
“medrese” (old religious school) of Ramazaniye (Ahmed Çelebi), Caravanserai S of Şeker Pasha, Hışva, Emirali, Millet, Kürkçü and the municipality, markets hall of Zincirli and Kemikli
Public baths of Eski, Pasha, of Şıh, Pazar, Naip, Tabak, Hoca, of Hassan Bey and Tuğlu
House of Şeyh Abdullah Effendi
Bridges of Ebbağhane, of Aynülleben, of Yazıcık, Babilke and Murad IV, museum of Gaziantep (which shelters splendid the mosaic S saved of the site of Zeugma.

External bonds

Official site of the municipality of Gaziantep
Official site of the prefecture of Gaziantep
Kitchen of Gaziantep
GAP Project, vast public working premises in the area
Gaziantep Fen Lisesi Alumni complementary Web site
Note over the medieval period

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