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Kahramanmaraş Province

Kahramanmaras

Kahramanmaraş, which used to be known as Maraş, is a city in , located on the crossroad of , and .
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  • Type: City with 1,110,000 residents
  • Description: city in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Caesarea Germanicia”, “Germanicea Marqasi”, “Germanicia Caesarea”, “Germanikeia”, “Kahramanmaraş”, “Kahramanmarash”, “Mar’ash”, “Maraache”, “Maras”, “Maraş”, “Marash”, “Marasion”, “Markash”, “Markasi”, “Marqasi”, and “Meres”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grand Mosque of Marash and Kahramanmaraş Castle.

Mosque
Photo: Zcebeci, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maraş Grand Mosque is a historical mosque in Kahramanmaraş City, , . The mosque is at the south of and to the north west of the covered market.

Castle
Photo: Murat1986, CC BY 3.0.
is a castle in . Kahramanmaraş is an old city. The castle is in the urban fabric of Kahramanmaraş city. It is at. It is on a tumulus so it isn't particularly high with respect to surrounding.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Onikişubat and Dulkadiroğlu.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 2,429 km2, and its population is 453,730. The district was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Kahramanmaraş, along with the new district .

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,176 km2, and its population is 226,409. The district was created at the 2013 reorganisation from parts of the former central district of Kahramanmaraş and the district of , along with the new district .

Kahramanmaras

Latitude
37.5813° or 37° 34′ 53″ north
Longitude
36.9275° or 36° 55′ 39″ east
Population
1,110,000
Elevation
564 metres (1,850 feet)
IATA airport code
KCM
United Nations Location Code
TR KCM
Open location code
8G9RHWJH+G2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26480875
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
310859
Wiki­data ID
Q134703
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Yue Chinese—“Kahramanmaras” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Мараш”
  • Arabic: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Arabic: “قهرمان مرعش”
  • Arabic: “مرعش”
  • Armenian: “Գերմանիկ”
  • Armenian: “Մարաշ”
  • Asturian: “Marash”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maras”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maraş”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəhrəmanmaraş”
  • Basque: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Belarusian: “Кахраманмараш”
  • Bengali: “কাহ্রামানমারাস”
  • Breton: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Breton: “Maraş”
  • Bulgarian: “Кахраманмараш”
  • Catalan: “Germanicia”
  • Catalan: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Catalan: “Maraix”
  • Catalan: “Maraş”
  • Catalan: “Marash”
  • Cebuano: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەرعەش”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەرەش”
  • Chechen: “КахӀраманмараш”
  • Chinese: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Chinese: “卡赫拉曼馬拉什”
  • Chinese: “卡赫拉曼马拉什”
  • Chinese: “馬拉斯”
  • Czech: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Czech: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Czech: “Maras”
  • Czech: “Maraş”
  • Danish: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Danish: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gurgum”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Meraş”
  • Dutch: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Dutch: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مرعش”
  • Esperanto: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Finnish: “Germanica Caesarea”
  • Finnish: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Finnish: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Finnish: “Maraş”
  • French: “Germanicia”
  • French: “Germanicie”
  • French: “Gurgum”
  • French: “Kahramanmaras”
  • French: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • French: “Kahramanmarash”
  • French: “Marach”
  • French: “Maraş”
  • French: “Marash”
  • Gagauz: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Galician: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Galician: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Galician: “Maraş”
  • Galician: “Marash”
  • Georgian: “ქაჰრამანმარაში”
  • German: “Germanikeia”
  • German: “Kahramanmaras”
  • German: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • German: “Maraş”
  • German: “Marasch”
  • German: “Merasch”
  • Gilaki: “قهرمان‌مرعش”
  • Greek: “Γερμανίκεια”
  • Greek: “Καχραμανμαράς”
  • Greek: “Καχραμάνμαρας”
  • Gujarati: “કહરામેનમારાસ”
  • Hebrew: “קהרמאנמרש”
  • Hebrew: “קרמאנמרש”
  • Hindi: “कहरामनमारस”
  • Hindi: “काहरामअंमरास”
  • Hungarian: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Indonesian: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Indonesian: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Interlingue: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Irish: “Marash”
  • Italian: “Germanicea”
  • Italian: “Germanicia”
  • Italian: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Italian: “Maraş”
  • Italian: “Marash”
  • Japanese: “カフラマンマラシュ”
  • Japanese: “マラシュ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಚ್ಛ್ರಾಮಂಮರಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Qahramanmaraş”
  • Kazakh: “Қаһарманмараш”
  • Kazakh: “Қаһраманмараш”
  • Kazakh: “قاحرامانماراش”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Korean: “카라만마라슈”
  • Korean: “카흐라만마라쉬”
  • Korean: “카흐라만마라슈”
  • Korean: “카흐라만마라시”
  • Kurdish: “Gurgum”
  • Kurdish: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Kurdish: “Maraş”
  • Kurdish: “Meraş”
  • Kurdish: “Mereş”
  • Kurdish: “Mereşê”
  • Kurdish: “گورگوم”
  • Lak: “Къагьраманмараш”
  • Latvian: “Kahramanmaraša”
  • Lithuanian: “Kachramanmarašas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kahramanmarašas”
  • Macedonian: “Кахраманмараш”
  • Malay: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Malay: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Marathi: “कहरामॅनमारास”
  • Mazanderani: “قهرمان‌مرعش”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Minangkabau: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Mingrelian: “ქაჰრამანმარაში”
  • Moksha: “Каграманмараш”
  • Nauru: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kahramanmaraş (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Northern Luri: “قهرمان مرعش”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maraş”
  • Norwegian: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Ossetian: “Кахраманмараш”
  • Persian: “قهرمان ماراش”
  • Persian: “قهرمان مرعش”
  • Persian: “قهرمان‌مرعش”
  • Persian: “مرعش”
  • Polish: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Polish: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Portuguese: “Cacramanemaraxe”
  • Portuguese: “Germanícia Cesareia”
  • Portuguese: “Germanícia”
  • Portuguese: “Germanikeia”
  • Portuguese: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Portuguese: “Marache”
  • Portuguese: “Maraş”
  • Portuguese: “Marash”
  • Portuguese: “Markasi”
  • Pushto: “قهرمان مرعش”
  • Romanian: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Romanian: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Romanian: “Kahramanmaraș”
  • Russian: “Германикия”
  • Russian: “Кахраманмарас”
  • Russian: “Кахраманмараш”
  • Russian: “Мараш”
  • Scots: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Serbian: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Serbian: “Karamanmaraš”
  • Serbian: “Караманмараш”
  • Serbian: “Кахраманмараш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Germanikeia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kahramanmaraš”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Sinhala: “කහරමන්මරස්”
  • Slovenian: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قهرمان مرعش”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مرعش”
  • Spanish: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Spanish: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Kahramanmaraş”
  • Swahili: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Swedish: “Germanicia Cæsarea”
  • Swedish: “Germanicia Marasion”
  • Swedish: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Swedish: “Kermanig”
  • Swedish: “Maraş”
  • Swedish: “Marasch”
  • Tajik: “Qahramonmar’aş”
  • Tajik: “Қаҳрамонмаръаш”
  • Talysh: “Kahramanmaraš”
  • Talysh: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Tamil: “கஃஹ்ராமண்மராஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Кахраманмараш”
  • Telugu: “ఖరామన్మరస్”
  • Thai: “คาฮ์รามันมารัช”
  • Turkish: “Germanikeia”
  • Turkish: “K.Maraş”
  • Turkish: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Turkish: “Maraş”
  • Udmurt: “Кахраманмараш”
  • Uighur: “قەھرىمانماراش”
  • Uighur: “قەھرىمانمەرئەش”
  • Ukrainian: “Каграманмараш”
  • Ukrainian: “Кахраманмараш”
  • Urdu: “قہرمان مرعش”
  • Uzbek: “Marʼash”
  • Uzbek: “Qahramonmarʼash”
  • Venetian: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Vietnamese: “Kahramanmaras”
  • Vietnamese: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Vietnamese: “Maraş”
  • Volapük: “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kahramanmaraş”
  • Western Armenian: “Մարաշ”
  • Western Mari: “Кахраманмараш”
  • Western Panjabi: “قہرمان مرعش”
  • Western Panjabi: “کہرامانمراش”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡赫拉曼马拉什”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬拉斯”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kahramanmaras”. Photo: KadimBilgi, CC BY-SA 4.0.