Introducing Şanlıurfa Province 3

Sanli Urfa, 44 km south-east. Each year, thousands of local and foreign tourists visited by the historic city of Harran, Harran Plain is situated in its own name mentioned.

This is the last place where the Torah söylenilir Haran. Islamic historians, the city's founding mothers in law or grandsons of the Prophet Noah, Prophet Abraham's brother Aran'a (Haran) tie. 13th-century historian Ibn Şeddad, Hz. Abraham writes sitting in this city before going to Palestine. For this reason, the Prophet Harran. Also referred to as Abraham's city, Harran, the Prophet Abraham's house, bearing the name of a mosque, he says that there is sitting on a stone leans.

The most accurate information on the history of Harran is based on the findings from archaeological excavations. The first time in the name of Harran, in the BC Kültepe and Mari II. thousands of cuneiform tablets belonging to the beginning, "Har-ra-na" or "Ha-ra-na" come across as. If the Ebla tablets from Harran in northern Syria, "Ha-ra-na" as mentioned. BC II. Get in the middle of the Hittite tablets, an agreement between Hitit'lerle Mitanni'ler Harran moon god (Sin) and witnesses of the God of the Sun is held is stated.

Harran, came to Northern Mesopotamia at the crossroads of important trade routes connecting the western and north-west, there. This is due to the nature of Harran, in the Assyrian merchants in Anatolia and the tight trade relations were important stopping points. Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Mesopotamia thousands of years the trade has been based on the Harran. This can also cause the accumulation of wealth, and has been a deep-rooted culture.

Harran, Moon, Sun and planets are regarded as holy and idolatry of ancient Mesopotamia (Sabiizm) is an important aspect of the center was known. This is why a very advanced knowledge of astronomy in Harran.