Sanliurfa / Turkey

Located to the north of the Plain Harran between Euphrates and Tigris in the southeastern Anatolia is the settlement of Sanliurfa. The name of the city in the Scyhian/Pelasgian language is "Adasa", meaning "the castle of the great goddess". This name sunsequently became Edesa and, during the Syriac period, Urha. The area stretches over the plain Harran to the nort of the lands of Mesopotamia, wich means "ste between two rivers" and is inhabited since the prehistoric times. It remained under the occupations of Etruscan/Pelasgians, Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Aramaeans, Hittites, Syriacs, Keldanis, Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Byzantines and Arabs. In 1086 it fell to the Seljuk Turks. The area, known as the Land of Prophets, was the place where prophet Azeroglu Ibrahim lived who was the founder of religions with an only god. He believed in an only god and broke the idols. He was thrown into the fire in Urfa with Aynzeliha, the disciple and own daughter of Ibrahim, by Nemrut who heard of this. However, through a divine power the place of the fire turned into 2 large lakes where fsh considered sacred started swimming. Later, Halil Ibrahim Mosque and Kulliye wre built on the banks of these lakes.

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