Suruc

Suruc is a rustic region and city of Sanlıurfa Province of Turkey, on a plain close to the Syrian fringe 46 kilometers south-west of the city of Urfa. In days of yore the Sumerians assembled a settlement in the territory. The city was a focal point of silk-production. They were prevailing by ious other Mesopotamian civilisations.

The Roman Emperor Constantine I brought the town under the control of the city of Edessa. One of the most well known inhabitants of the locale is its 6th century Syriac religious administrator and writer scholar Jacob of Serugh. The Roman Catholic Church hold the precinct as a main see of that church, though they had little nearness in the zone, while the Syriac church holds a different Bishopric in the town. Tell-Batnan was visited by sovereign Julian on his walk from Antioch to the Euphrates in 363.

The town was surrendered to the Rashidun Arabs in 639. It was later controlled by Crusaders, and Muslims again. The city was then crushed in the Mongol attacks, and in 1517 the zone was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Selim I. Suruc was involved in 1918 by British and in 1919 by French troops, however was liberated by a nearby obstruction battle. Today, Suruc is occupied for the most part by ethnic Kurds.