Harran

Harran is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 904 km2, and its population is 96,072 (2022). It is approximately southeast of Urfa and from the Syrian border crossing at Akçakale.

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Harran is a municipality and district in southeastern Turkey's Şanlıurfa Province, covering an area of 904 square kilometers with a population of about 96,000 people. Located near both the city of Urfa and the Syrian border, it serves as an important settlement in this region of Turkey.

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Key facts

Turkey place.type: metro district
Turkey place.name: Harran
Turkey place.image_skyline: Harran 2015.jpg
Turkey place.image_caption: The Harran plain
Turkey place.pushpin_relief: 1
Turkey place.province: Şanlıurfa
Turkey place.leader_party: MHP
Turkey place.leader_name: Mahmut Özyavuz
Turkey place.area_total_km2: 904
Turkey place.elevation_m: 360
Turkey place.population_total: 96072
Turkey place.population_as_of: 2022
Turkey place.postal_code: 63510
Turkey place.area_code: 0414
Turkey place.established_date: 2500–2000 BC

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Harran
Population: 87843
Area: 1.054
Elevation: 137
Official website: www.harran.bel.tr
Image: Harran beehive houses (2).JPG
Licence plate code: 63

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Commons category: Harran, Şanlıurfa
native label: Harran
name in kana: ハッラーン
postal code: 63 ХХХ
rural population: 65564
urban population: 94207

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Toponymy
History
Early history
Middle and Late Bronze Age
Iron Age
Antiquity (539 BC–640)
Middle Ages (640–1271)
Harran under the caliphates
Late Middle Ages
Later history (1271–present)
Town
Monuments and ruins
City walls
Beehive houses
Modern buildings
Geography and climate
Composition
Demographics
Language
Tourism
Politics
Archaeology
Notable people
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
Web

Harran was founded at some point between the 25th and 20th centuries BC, possibly as a merchant colony by Sumerian traders from Ur. Over the course of its early history, Harran rapidly grew into a major Mesopotamian cultural, commercial and religious center. It was made a religiously and politically influential city through its association with the moon-god Sin; many prominent Mesopotamian rulers consulted with and renovated the moon-temple of Eḫulḫul in Harran. Harran came under Assyrian rule under Adad-nirari I ( BC) and became a provincial capital often second in importance only to the Assyrian capital of Assur itself. During the collapse of the Assyrian Empire, Harran briefly served as the final capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (612–609 BC).