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Sanliurfa

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Şanlıurfa (shän'lər`fä), formerly Urfa (r`fä), city (1990 pop. 278,516), capital of Şanlıurfa prov., SE Turkey. It is the trade center for a productive agricultural region and one of the most rapidly growing cities in Turkey due to its position in the midst of a large-scale irrigation development, with significant textile-related industries. The city was called Edessa Edessa (ĭdĕs`ə), ancient city of Mesopotamia, on the site of modern Şanlıurfa , Turkey. It emerged in the 4th cent. B.
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 until its incorporation in the Ottoman Empire in 1637. Its once large Christian population—mostly Armenian—suffered severe massacres in the late 19th cent.


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The most direct approach, employed in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa and elsewhere, is that eight years of schooling is compulsory; otherwise, "you are breaking the law".
A retrospective study on pleural malignancies, in collaboration with other hospitals in the city, revealed 50 malignant mesothelioma cases reported in the last 10 years, from small villages around Adana and the neighboring cities Diyarbakir, Sanliurfa, Malatya, and Adiyaman (Figure 1).
 
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