Mardin in Turkey

28 February 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  6 minutes

© panoramio.com - Ben Bender/cc-by-sa-3.0

© panoramio.com – Ben Bender/cc-by-sa-3.0

Mardin is a city and seat of the Artuklu District of Mardin Province in Turkey. It is known for the Artuqid architecture of its old city, and for its strategic location on a rocky hill near the Tigris River. The old town of the city is under the protection of UNESCO, which forbids new constructions to preserve its façade. The city had a population of 129,864 in 2021.   read more…

Theme Week Turkey – Gaziantep in Southeastern Anatolia

23 November 2018 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  20 minutes

View from Gaziantep Castle © flickr.com - Natalie Sayin/cc-by-2.0

View from Gaziantep Castle © flickr.com – Natalie Sayin/cc-by-2.0

Gaziantep, previously and still informally Antep, is a city in the western part of Turkey‘s Southeastern Anatolia Region, some 185 kilometres (115 mi) east of Adana and 97 kilometres (60 mi) north of Aleppo, Syria. The city has two urban districts under its administration, Şahinbey and Şehitkamil. It is the sixth-most populous city in Turkey and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.   read more…

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