Kahramanmaras

Kahramanmaras is a city in the Mediterranean Region, Turkey and the authoritative focal point of Kahramanmaras Province. Prior to 1973, Kahramanmaras was named Maras. The city lies on a plain at the foot of the Ahir Dagi Ahir Mountain and has a populace of 1,112,634 starting at 2017. The locale is best known for its particular dessert, and its generation of salep, a powder produced using dried orchid tubers. It is associated via air to Istanbul and Ankara. Turkish Airlines has day by day non-stop flights from Istanbul and furthermore AnadoluJet works non-stop flights from Ankara. In the early Iron Age late eleventh century BC to ca. 711 BC, Maras was the capital city of the Syro-Hittite state Gurgum Hieroglyphic Luwian Kurkuma.

It was known as "the Kurkumaean city" to its Luwian occupants and as Marqas to the Assyrians. In 711 BC, the place where there is Gurgum was attached as an Assyrian region and renamed as Marqas after its capital. Maras was called Germanicia Caesarea, Germanikeia in the season of the Roman and Byzantine realms. As per a 2010 Cumhuriyet article, the primary remains of Germanicia have just been uncovered in the Dulkadirogullari quarters of the city. In 1645, Germanicia was taken from the Byzantines by the Muslim Arabs, to whom the city was known as Marash. Marash was an imperative Syriac Orthodox bishopric; Mor Dionysius Bar Salibi kicked the bucket 1171 was its priest.