Turks calls this Urfa, as it is normally called as the Prophets' City due to legends telling that the Patriarch Abraham was conceived in a cavern here. The hollow, and other unbelievable areas, are gone to yearly by innumerable Muslim pioneers.

Since Urfa is situated comfortable intersection of courses to Europe, Asia and Africa, pretty much everybody critical has walked through and left their imprint, including the Babylonians, Egyptians, Alexander the Great, Greeks, Romans and Seljuk Turks under Saladin.

The Crusaders, undoubtedly pulled in by the town's effortlessly guarded projection called the Throne of Nimrod, called it Edessa and made it the capital of the Latin County of Edessa, governed by Count Baldwin of Boulogne.

The historical backdrop of Şanlıurfa is recorded from the fourth century BC, yet may go once again in any event to 9000 BC. The city was ... Read more »