Halfeti

Halfeti is a little cultivating locale on the east bank of the stream Euphrates in Sanliurfa Province in Turkey, 120 km from the city of Sanlıurfa. Populace 33,467. Most of the towns were submerged during the 1990s under the waters behind the dam on the Euphrates at Birecik. The town was hence expelled to the town of Karaotlak, the working of the new town is currently total.

Halfeti was the subject of a web urban legend wherein the town was the main area on Earth where dark roses grew. The Assyrian King Shalmaneser III built up a settlement here named Shitamrat. The town was therefore settled by ious civilisations and known as Urima, Qal'a Rhomayta or Hesna d-Romaye, to the Byzantine Greeks it was known as Romaion Koula, and the Arab heros changed this name to Qal'at al-Rum.

The town was braced and was assaulted by the Mameluks in 1280, who vanquished the peripheral Christian towns however were not able break into the fortification, which in the end tumbled to Sultan al-Ashraf in 1290. The Mameluks repaired the city dividers and renamed the place Qal'at al-Muslimin in spite of the fact that the names Urumgala and Rumkale persisted. The town was brought under Ottoman principle by Selim I.