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Southeastern Anatolia (Urfa, Gaziantep, Mardin)
Southeastern Anatolia (Urfa, Gaziantep, Mardin)
A City You Can Taste
The northern edge of the Fertile Crescent; a region of massive historical weight
and religious significance.
- Early/Prehistoric (Pre-3000 BC):
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic Builders: The creators of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe—the world’s oldest known monumental temple complexes.
- BC (3000 BC – 1 BC):
- Mitanni & Assyrians: Mesopotamian powers that constantly pushed into the northern plains for resources.
- Neo-Hittites: City-states that kept Hittite culture alive in the southeast after the Bronze Age collapse.
- Kingdom of Commagene: A Hellenistic-Persian buffer state famous for the massive stone heads on Mount Nemrut.
- CE / After BC (1 CE – 1300 CE):
- Umayyads & Abbasids: Islamic caliphates that influenced the architecture and culture of cities like Harran and Mardin.
- Artuqids: A Turkmen dynasty that ruled the region, building famous bridges and advancing science (home to the engineer Al-Jazari).
