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Şanlıurfa

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Şanlıurfa, Turkey Urhai/Hurri, Edessa, Antioch, al‐Ruhā/Roucha/Rochas, Urfa A very ancient city named after the Hurrian people (their name meaning ‘cave’), the city being their capital during the 2nd millennium bc. It was refounded towards the end of the 4th century bc by Alexander III the Great's† army veterans who renamed it Edessa after their own city in Macedonia. A century later Seleucus I Nicator† changed the name to Antioch (by the Callirrhoe ‘beautiful, flowing (water)’) after his son, Antiochus. Taken by the Arabs in 637, it was recaptured by the Byzantines in 1032; captured by Baldwin of Boulogne in 1098, it became the first Crusader state in 1098–1144 before falling to the Seljuk Turks. Its present name, adopted in 1637, is derived from the original Aramaic name, Urhai, with the additional Turkish şanlı ‘glorious’ or ‘famous’.

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