Haliliye

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Haliliye

Total population

392,661

Coordinates37.17°, 38.80°

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City facts

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Overview

Haliliye is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,924 km2, and its population is 396,656 (2022). The district Haliliye was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Şanlıurfa Province, along with the new districts Eyyübiye and Karaköprü. It covers the eastern part of the agglomeration of Şanlıurfa and the adjacent countryside. The name "Haliliye" refers to Halil İbrahim, the Muslim pronunciation of Abraham whose tomb is believed to be in Şanlıurfa. In the local elections of 31 March 2019, Mehmet Canpolat from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected mayor. As Kaymakam Serap Özmen Çetin was appointed.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Abdullah Halman

Turkish association football player (born 1987)

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Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya

Turkish judge (born 1950)

İbrahim Tatlıses

Turkish musician (born 1952)

Ahmet Özhan

Turkish actor and singer (born 1950)

Seyyal Taner

Turkish actor and singer (born 1952)

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Barsauma of Nisibis

Bishop of the Church of the East

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Aysel Özakın

Turkish-British writer (born 1942)

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Bekir Yıldız

Turkish writer of Kurdish ancestry (1933–1998)

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Bülent İnal

Turkish actor (born 1973)

Theodore Abu-Qurrah

Greek theologian and bishop

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Fevzi Özkan

Turkish association football player (born 1986)

Fuat Necati Öncel

Turkish statesperson (born 1940)

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Mahmut Tuncer

Turkish association football player (born 1961)

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Yusuf Nabi

Ottoman poet

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Grigor XIII

Co-Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 1603 to 1606

İbrahim Halil Baran

Turkish poet of Kurdish ancestry (born 1981)

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  1403.7 mi away · pop. 358
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  1403.7 mi away · pop. 222
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Geography & sun

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