Gaziantep Province

Region · 🇹🇷 Türkiye

Population 2,164,134

Area 6,792 km²

Time zone Europe/Istanbul

Official website www.gaziantep.gov.tr/ilimiz-gaziantep

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Gaziantep Essentials

Gaziantep, a UNESCO City of Gastronomy, centers around the world-renowned Zeugma Mosaic Museum and its historic fortress. The city’s Silk Road heritage is preserved in the Bakircilar Çarsisi and Almacı Pazarı, where traditional copper crafts and regional spices are traded. Culinary landmarks like İmam Çağdaş offer centuries-old recipes, while sites like the Rumkale fortress on the Euphrates and the Yesemek Quarry provide insight into Hittite and Roman history. This selection covers the city's essential archaeological sites, historic bazaars, and legendary culinary institutions.

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Gaziantep Highlights

Gaziantep serves as a gateway to Anatolia's ancient civilizations, featuring the Zeugma Mosaic Museum, home to 1,700 square meters of Roman mosaics. The city's center is dominated by the historic Gaziantep Castle, while the surrounding region contains significant Iron Age and Bronze Age sites. Key locations include the Hittite sculpture workshop at Yesemek, the ancient Neo-Hittite capital of Carchemish, and the archaeological mounds of Tilmen Höyük and Zincirli Höyük, which reveal millennia of habitation from the Neolithic to the Crusader periods.

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Ancient Archaeological Sites

This collection highlights the significant archaeological heritage of the Gaziantep region, spanning from the Chalcolithic period to the Roman era. It includes Zeugma, renowned for its Roman mosaics, and the Yesemek Quarry, the largest known sculpture workshop of the ancient Near East. The list features the Iron Age citadel of Sam’al, the Hittite capital at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and several settlement mounds like Tilmen Höyük and Coba Höyük that reveal thousands of years of Anatolian history.

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