===The First World War and after===In 1914 Urfa was estimated to have 75,000 inhabitants: 45,000 Muslims, 25,000 Armenians and 5,000 Syriac/Assyrian Christians.
Urfa je bila eno od mnogih mest v porečju Evfrata in Tigrisa, ki sta bila zibelka cvetoče mezopotamske civilizacije.