Gaziantep Province

Gaziantep Province () is a province in sooth-central Turkey. Its caipital is the ceety o Gaziantep which haed a population o 853,513 as o 2000. Its neighbours are Adıyaman tae the north, Şanlıurfa tae the east, Sirie an Kilis at sooth, Hatay at soothwast, Osmaniye tae the wast an Kahramanmaraş tae the  northwast.

An important tradin centre syne auncient times, the province is an aa ane o Turkey's major manufacturin zones, an its agricultur is dominatit bi the growin o pistachio nuts.

In auncient times, first the Hittites an later the Assyrians controlled the region.  It saw hintle fechtin durin the Crusades, an Saladin wan a key battle thare in 1183. Efter Warld War I an Ottoman Empire's disintegration, it wis invadit bi the forces o the French Third Republic durin the Turkis War o Unthirldom.  It wis returned tae Turkis control efter the Treaty o Lausanne wis signed, formally endin hostilities atween Turkey an the Allies o Warld War I.

Oreeginally kent as Antep, the title gazi (meanin veteran in Turkis) wis addit tae the province's an the provincial caipital's name in 1921, due tae its population's extraordinary courage durin the Turkis War o Unthirldom.

Kilis Province wis ance pairt o the Gaziantep Province.

Geology
Twa major active geological faults meet in wastren Gaziantep near the mairch wi adjoinin Adana Province: the Deid Sea Transform an the East Anatolian Fault. Thir represent the tectonic boundary atween the northward-muivin Arabian Plate tae the east, an the convergin African an Eurasian Plates tae the wast.

Geography
Gaziantep is traversed bi the northeasterly line o equal latitude an langitude.

Destricts
Gaziantep province is dividit intae 9 destricts (destricts o the ceety Gaziantep in bauld):
Araban
Islahiye
Karkamış
Nizip
Nurdağı
Oğuzeli
Şahinbey
Şehitkamil
Yavuzeli

References

 Freemit airtins 

  Gaziantep govrenor's offeecial wabsteid
  Gaziantep municipality's offeecial wabsteid 
  Gaziantep weather forecast information 
 Pictures o Gaziantep 
 Picturs o the capital o this province
 Picturs o Gaziantep 
  Gaziantep Ceety 
  Gaziantep local newspaper
  All about cultural activities in Gaziantep
  Histori Rumkale Photos 
   The destricts o Gaziantep Latest News 

Category:Provinces o Turkey

Category:Sootheastren Anatolie Region