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Copyright violation?

From the fourth paragraph:

"Extending over a territory of 18,584 km² (7,173 mi.2) with Syria to the south and the provinces of Mardin and Diyarbakir to the east, Gaziantep to the west, and Adiyaman to the north, Sanliurfa Province (Figure 2.6) is the largest province of Southeast Anatolia."

My emphasis. This would seem to indicate that this has been copied and pasted from somewhere. I haven't been able to find an exact match though. The closest I found in my brief search was this link which has some fairly similar sentencing.

--TheParanoidOne 11:43, 22 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Category: Assyria

I would like to know why the category Assyria is allowed while category Kurdistan is being removed? Is there exact boundaries for Assyria? As far as I remember that's the main reason given for removing the Kurdistan category. Heja Helweda 22:51, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Politics

Politics section needs to be rewritten. Because Mehmet Ali Ağar is no longer a party leader and there is no DEHAP. Also, the article about the province should not have a paragraph on municipality ( Municipalities are part of city administration, not on province administration.) Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 09:38, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative names

This article is related with a province (Şanlıurfa Province) not with a city (Şanlıurfa). So we mustn't add alternative names of the city of Şanlıurfa. We can add alternative names of the province of Şanlıurfa with reliable sources. Takabeg (talk) 07:10, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

City and province

I see that historical names have been added to Şanlıurfa Province; I am sure in good faith. However the historical names are irrevelant. The province is named after the capital city (Şanlıurfa) of the province. So there are two articles in Wikipedia for Şanlıurfa and Şanlıurfa Province. But it can be seen that while the first refers to a single city, the second refers to a province which includes the rural area in addition to many settlements including the capital of the province. The city is an ancient city with many names. But the province is a relatively recent administrative unit. So while the city has historical names , the province doesn't have a historical name. Now I am going to delete the extra and irrevelant names. But please note that the historical names are kept in the articles about Şanlıurfa city. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 08:37, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Şanlıurfa which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 17:00, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No need to give christian, biblical prophets arabic names first

Its the birth place of Abraham who is known as "Ibrahim" in Islam. Thats the right order, Christianity came first, they define the order. And its an article written in english. England is christian based. 62.226.86.59 (talk) 23:08, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's the supposed birthplace of the person whose common English name is Abraham. Ibrahim is the Arabic version of the same guy's name. The article should use Abraham because it's the common English name; the various religions are entirely beside the point. — LlywelynII 09:59, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sayburç article needed

Article needed: Sayburç, where some very interesting recent archaeological discoveries have been made. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:56, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]