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Posts Tagged ‘hasankeyf’

May 17, 2011 0

Batman, Turkey

By in About Anatolia, Kurdish Culture, Mardin, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian Culture

One of several southeastern Anatolian cities, Batman is a touch province which takes its name from the river flowing on its west. The Batman river, spanned by the old Malabadi Bridge, draws the province’s border with Diyarbakir, and then joins Tigris (Dicle) River passing over the land. The southeastern extensions of the Taurus Mountains conversely, [...]

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May 14, 2011 0

Gaziantep, Turkey

By in About Anatolia, Important Places to Visit, Kurdish Culture, Main Page

Gaziantep is likely one of the modern provinces of South-Eastern Anatolian Region and also one of the oldest of Hittite origin. Being the center of pistachio nut cultivation in Turkey and with its extensive olive groves and vineyards, Gaziantep is one of the important and industrial centers of  Turkey. The old city known as Aintap [...]

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November 29, 2010 0

Mesopotamia

By in Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a place name for the area of the Tigris-Euphrates system, largely corresponding to modern Iraq and some parts of north-eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran. Widely regarded as the cradle of civilization included the Bronze Age in Mesopotamia, Sumer and Akkad, Babylon and Assyrian empires. In the Iron Age, it was determined [...]

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