İslahiye
Script error: No such module "For". Template:Infobox Turkey place İslahiye is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey.[1] Its area is 865 km2,[2] and its population is 67,650 (2022).[3] It is a railway border crossing into Syria. Near İslahiye is the site of ancient Nicopolis.[4]
The railway station of Islahiye is the last stop on the railway to Damascus in Syria. Since March 2001, a regular train line runs once a week between Syria and Iran via Islahiye.[5] The state road D.825, which connects Gaziantep with Antakya, runs through İslahiye.
The town is inhabited by Yörüks of the Aydınlı tribe.[6] English traveler Mark Sykes recorded İslahiye as a town inhabited by Turks in early 20th century.[7]
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck İslahiye on 6 February 2023, causing widespread devastation in the town and many deaths.[8]
Composition
There are 71 neighbourhoods in İslahiye District:[9] Template:Div col
- Ağabey
- Ağalarobası
- Akınyolu
- Alaca
- Altınüzüm
- Arpalı
- Atatürk
- Aydınlık
- Bahçelievler
- Bayraktepe
- Beyler
- Boğaziçi
- Burhaniye
- Burunsuzlar
- Çamlıca
- Çerçili
- Cevdetpaşa
- Çınarlı
- Çolaklar
- Çubuk
- Cumhuriyet
- Değirmencik
- Dervişpaşa
- Elbistanhüyüğü
- Erenler
- Esenler
- Fevziçakmak
- Fevzipaşa
- Göltepe
- Güllühüyük
- Güngören
- Hacı Ali Öztürk
- Hanağzı
- Hasanlök
- Hürriyet
- İdilli
- Kabaklar
- Kalaycık
- Kale
- Karacaören
- Karakaya
- Karapınar
- Karapolat
- Kayabaşı
- Kazıklı
- Kırıkçalı
- Koçcağız
- Köklü
- Kozdere
- Kuşçumustafa
- Ortaklı
- Örtülü
- Pınarbaşı
- Şahmaran
- Şerikanlı
- Serinevler
- Sulumağara
- Tandır
- Telli
- Türkbahçe
- Yağızlar
- Yelliburun
- Yeni
- Yeniceli
- Yeniköy
- Yesemek
- Yeşilova
- Yeşilyurt
- Yolbaşı
- Yukarıbilenler
- Zincirli
Climate
İslahiye has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa),[10] with very hot, dry summers, and cool, wet winters.
See also
References
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- ↑ Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
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