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Nizip (Medieval Greek: Nisibis or Nisibina; Ottoman Turkish: نزيب[3]) is a district and town[4] of Gaziantep Province of southeastern Turkey.

Nizip
Nizip
Coordinates: 37°00′36″N 37°47′50″E
Country	Turkey
Province	Gaziantep
Government
• Mayor	Hacı Fevzi Akdoğan (AKP)
• Kaymakam	Yaşar Karadeniz
Area [1]
• District	1,046.25 km2 (403.96 sq mi)
Population  (2012)[2]
• Urban	100,488
• District	135,819
• District density	130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Post code	27700
Website	www.nizip.bel.tr

As of 2010, the population of the city is 96,229. It is located 45 km from the city of Gaziantep, 95 km from Şanlıurfa (Edessa), and 35 km from Karkamış, which is an old city also known historically as Carchemish.

Notable People

• Celal Doğan (1943*), Former president of Gaziantep F.K., Lawyer and politician
• Mehmet Ali Yaprak (1949-2004), Turkish businessman and drug trafficker
• Mustafa Cengiz (1949-2021), businessman who served as the president of sports club Galatasaray S.K.
• Mehmet Görmez (1959*), former President of the Presidency of Religious Affairs and as such legally the highest level Islamic scholar in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
• Zihni Çakır (1969*), journalist and author
• Ali Şahin (1970*), Turkish politician who has been Deputy Minister of European Union Affairs since January 2016.
• Abdulhamit Gül (1977*), a Turkish politician. Currently, he is the Minister of Justice. He is a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from Gaziantep.

Gallery

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  Nizip Town
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  Nizip Town view
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  Nizip Mosque
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  Nizip Arched road
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  Nizip Architectural sight
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  Nizip Architectural detail
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  Nizip Fevkanı church
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  Nizip Fevkanı church
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  Nizip Fevkanı church

See also

• Barak Turkmens
• Battle of Nizip

References

На других языках

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[de] Nizip

Nizip (deutsch Nisib, zazaisch Sêwrege, kurdisch .mw-parser-output .Arab a,.mw-parser-output a bdi.Arab{text-decoration:none!important}.mw-parser-output .Arab{font-size:120%}بێلقیس .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}Bêlqîs) ist eine Stadtgemeinde (Belediye) im gleichnamigen Ilçe (Landkreis) der Provinz Gaziantep in der türkischen Region Südostanatolien und gleichzeitig ein Stadtbezirk der 1986 gebildeten Büyükşehir belediyesi Gaziantep (Großstadtgemeinde/Metropolprovinz). Seit der Gebietsreform ab 2013 ist die Gemeinde flächen- und einwohnermäßig identisch mit dem Landkreis.

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- [en] Nizip

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[ru] Низип

Низип (тур. Nizip) — город и район в провинции Газиантеп (Турция).

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