Şanlıurfa (often simply known as Ourfa, Urfa or Orfa, formerly
Edessa or in
Kurdish: Riha) is a
city in south-eastern
Turkey, and the capital of
Şanlıurfa Province. Urfa is situated on a plain under big open skies, about eighty kilometres east of the
Euphrates River. The climate features extremely hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters. A large part of the population of Urfa is
Kurdish, with a sizeable minority of Arabs..
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