Harran
Harran is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa, Turkey. Its area is 904 km2, and its population is 96,072. It is approximately 40 kilometres southeast of Urfa and 20 kilometres from the Syrian border crossing at Akçakale.
- Type: Town with 83,100 residents
- Description: district and town in Şanlıurfa, Turkey and ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia
- Also known as: “Carrhae”, “Harran Ilcesi”, and “Mint of Carrhae”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Harran Castle.
Harran Castle
The Harran Castle or Harran Citadel is a castle ruin in Harran, Turkey. Most of the present structure dates to the Ayyubid Sultanate c. 1200 but the castle is substantially older.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Harran Plain.
Harran
- Category: locality
- Location: Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
36.871° or 36° 52′ 16″ north
Longitude
39.0251° or 39° 1′ 31″ east
Population
83,100
Elevation
489 metres (1,604 feet)
Open location code
8G8XV2CG+C3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Harran” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Harran”
- Amharic: “ካራን”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κάρραι”
- Arabic: “حران”
- Armenian: “Խառան”
- Asturian: “Harran (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Harran”
- Azerbaijani: “Harran”
- Basque: “Harran”
- Belarusian: “Харан”
- Bulgarian: “Харан”
- Catalan: “Carres”
- Catalan: “Carrhae”
- Catalan: “Harran”
- Cebuano: “Harran İlçesi”
- Central Kurdish: “حەڕان”
- Chechen: “ХӀарран”
- Chinese: “Harran”
- Chinese: “卡雷”
- Chinese: “哈兰”
- Chinese: “哈尔兰”
- Chinese: “哈蘭”
- Chinese: “赫伦”
- Chinese: “赫倫”
- Croatian: “Haran”
- Czech: “Harran”
- Czech: “Karrhy”
- Danish: “Carrhae”
- Danish: “Harran”
- Dimli (individual language): “Harran”
- Dimli (individual language): “Heran”
- Dutch: “Harran”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حران”
- Esperanto: “Carrhae”
- Esperanto: “Harran”
- Finnish: “Carrhae”
- Finnish: “Harran”
- Finnish: “Karrhai”
- French: “Carrhae”
- French: “Carrhes”
- French: “Harran”
- Galician: “Carres”
- Galician: “Carrhae”
- Galician: “Harran”
- Galician: “Harrán”
- Galician: “Helenópolis”
- Galician: “Hindanu”
- Georgian: “ჰარანი”
- German: “Carrhae”
- German: “Charan”
- German: “Charran”
- German: “Harran”
- German: “Karrhae”
- German: “Karrhai”
- Greek: “Κάρρες Κιλικίας”
- Greek: “Χαρράν”
- Hebrew: “חרן”
- Hebrew: “פדן ארם”
- Hungarian: “Harrán”
- Indonesian: “Harran”
- Irish: “Harran”
- Italian: “Harran”
- Italian: “Ḥarrān”
- Japanese: “カルラエ”
- Japanese: “ハッラーン”
- Japanese: “ハラン”
- Korean: “하란”
- Kurdish: “Haran”
- Kurdish: “Harran”
- Kurdish: “Herran”
- Kurdish: “Xaran”
- Kurdish: “Xarran”
- Kurdish: “حەرران”
- Latin: “Carrhae”
- Lithuanian: “Carrhae”
- Lithuanian: “Haranas”
- Lithuanian: “Paddan-Aram”
- Macedonian: “Харан”
- Malagasy: “Harana”
- Malagasy: “Haràna”
- Malay: “Harran”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Harran”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Harran”
- Norwegian: “Harran”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܪܢ”
- Persian: “حران”
- Persian: “حرّان”
- Persian: “کارهه”
- Polish: “Carhae”
- Polish: “Charan”
- Polish: “Harran”
- Portuguese: “Carras”
- Portuguese: “Carrhae”
- Portuguese: “Harã”
- Portuguese: “Haran”
- Portuguese: “Harran”
- Romanian: “Harran”
- Russian: “Карры”
- Russian: “Харран”
- Scots: “Harran”
- Serbian: “Haran”
- Serbian: “Харан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Carrhae”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Harran”
- Slovenian: “Harran”
- Spanish: “Carrhae”
- Spanish: “Harran”
- Spanish: “Harrán”
- Spanish: “Jaran”
- Spanish: “Jarán”
- Swahili: “Harran”
- Swedish: “Carrhae”
- Swedish: “Haran”
- Swedish: “Harran”
- Tagalog: “Haran”
- Tagalog: “Harran”
- Tagalog: “Jaran”
- Tajik: “Ҳаррон”
- Tatar: “Харран (Һарран)”
- Tatar: “Харран”
- Turkish: “Harran İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Harran”
- Ukrainian: “Карри”
- Ukrainian: “Харран”
- Urdu: “حران”
- Vietnamese: “Harran”
- Waray (Philippines): “Harran”
- Western Mari: “Харран”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع حران”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع ہاران”
- Wu Chinese: “哈兰 (土耳其)”
- Wu Chinese: “哈兰（土耳其）”
- Yiddish: “חרן”
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