Harran

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Harran

Total population

83,072

Coordinates36.87°, 39.03°

Demographic figures from TurkStat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Harran is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 904 km2, and its population is 96,072 (2022). It is approximately 40 kilometres southeast of Urfa and 20 kilometres from the Syrian border crossing at Akçakale.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Nabonidus

king of Babylon

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Thābit ibn Qurra

Mesopotamian astronomer and mathematician

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Adad-guppi

assyrian priestess of the moon god Sin

Ibn Taymiyyah

Islamic scholar, jurist and philosopher (1263–1328)

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Hilal al-Sabi'

Arab historian, bureaucrat and writer (c.969–1056)

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Asad ibn al-Furat

jurist and theologian in Ifriqiya

A

Alexios Komnenos

Illegitimate son of Byzantine Emperor Andronikos I and Theodora Komnene, queen consort of Jerusalem

A

Al-Harran

astronomer

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Hovhannes Tlkurantsi

Armenian poet (fl. 15th c.)

Bjarne Fiskum

Norwegian violinist and composer (1939–2021)

Shihab ad-Din ibn Taymiyyah

Sunni Islamic scholar

ʻAbd al-Salām ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Taymīyah

Sunni Islamic scholar

Abu al-Faraj al-Shirazi

Muslim jurist of Hanbali school

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Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Hakam

Muslim scholar

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Ibn Shuʿba al-Ḥarrānī

10th Century Shiite jurist

F

Fakhr al-Din ibn Taymiyyah

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Şanlıurfa

• Şanlıurfa
  23.7 mi away · pop. 2,143,020
• Bozova
  43.7 mi away · pop. 54,641
• Lhánice
  1420.1 mi away · pop. 152
• Horní Lhotice
  1423.4 mi away · pop. 108
• Hluboké
  1423.7 mi away · pop. 223
• Kralice nad Oslavou
  1423.8 mi away · pop. 757
• Košíkov
  1424.7 mi away · pop. 165
• Jindřichov
  1426.1 mi away · pop. 84
• Březské
  1426.7 mi away · pop. 239
• Vícenice u Náměště nad Oslavou
  1427 mi away · pop. 358
• Prosetín
  1427.1 mi away · pop. 222
• Dolní Čepí
  1427.3 mi away · pop. 87

Browse all places in Şanlıurfa →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Harran

Search results from Open Library.