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Kayseri Province

Kayseri

Kayseri is a city in , 350 km southeast of Ankara. In 2021 the population was 1.2 million. Kayseri is a sprawling industrial city, with a mixture of trades such as furniture, and has a university.
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  • Type: City with 1,390,000 residents
  • Description: city in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Caesarea”, “Caesarea in Cappadocia”, “Caesarea Mazaca”, “Casarea”, “Céarée”, “Césarée”, “Eusebia”, “Eusebia at the Argaeus”, “Kaisaria”, “Kaisarie”, “Kaisariyah”, “Kaīzarie”, “Mazaca”, “Mazaka”, and “Qaisariye”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kayseri Archaeology Museum and Hunat Hatun Complex.

Museum
Photo: Sargon2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum in Kayseri, . Kayseri Archeology Museum, which has been serving here for about 50 years, has been moved to the new museum building within the Kayseri Castle and has been opened to visitors since 19 October 2019.

Photo: Demircimehmed, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a historic Islamic religious complex in Kayseri, Turkey. Early in the 13th century, Kayqubad I, Sultan of the Selçuks, captured the fortress from its ruler, Kir Vart.

Library
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Melikgazi and Kocasinan.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 668 km2, and its population is 594,344. It covers the southern and eastern part of the agglomeration of Kayseri and the adjacent countryside.

Town
is a municipality and district of , Turkey. Its area is 1,471 km2, and its population is 409,005. It covers the northern part of the agglomeration of Kayseri and the adjacent countryside.

Kayseri

Latitude
38.7219° or 38° 43′ 19″ north
Longitude
35.4873° or 35° 29′ 14″ east
Population
1,390,000
Elevation
1,054 metres (3,458 feet)
IATA airport code
ASR
United Nations Location Code
TR ASR
Open location code
8GCQPFCP+QW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26482287
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
308464
Wiki­data ID
Q48338
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Yue Chinese—“Kayseri” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Къайсэр”
  • Afrikaans: “Kayseri”
  • Albanian: “Kajseri”
  • Albanian: “Kajseriu”
  • Arabic: “قيصرية”
  • Armenian: “Կեսարիա”
  • Armenian: “ԿԵՍԱՐԻԱ”
  • Armenian: “Մաժաք”
  • Asturian: “Kayseri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kayseri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kaysəri”
  • Bashkir: “Кайсери”
  • Basque: “Kayseri”
  • Belarusian: “Кайсеры”
  • Belarusian: “Кайсэры”
  • Bengali: “কায়সিরি”
  • Bosnian: “Kayseri”
  • Breton: “Kayseri”
  • Bulgarian: “Кайсери”
  • Bulgarian: “Мазака”
  • Catalan: “Cesarea de Capadòcia”
  • Catalan: “Kayseri”
  • Cebuano: “Kayseri”
  • Central Kurdish: “قەیسەری”
  • Chechen: “Кайсери”
  • Chinese: “Kayseri”
  • Chinese: “卡伊瑟里”
  • Chinese: “开塞利”
  • Chinese: “開塞利”
  • Croatian: “Kayseri”
  • Czech: “Caesarea kappadokiana”
  • Czech: “Caesarea Mazaca”
  • Czech: “Kaiseri”
  • Czech: “Kayseri”
  • Danish: “Kayseri”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qeyseriye”
  • Dutch: “Caesarea”
  • Dutch: “Kayseri”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кайсери”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قيصريه”
  • Esperanto: “Caesarea Mazaca”
  • Esperanto: “Kayseri”
  • Estonian: “Kayseri”
  • Finnish: “Caesarea”
  • Finnish: “Kayseri”
  • Finnish: “Kayzeri”
  • Finnish: “Mazaka”
  • French: “Caesarea Mazaca”
  • French: “Césarée de Cappadoce”
  • French: “Kayseri”
  • Friulian: “Kayseri”
  • Gagauz: “Kayseri”
  • Galician: “Kayseri”
  • Georgian: “კაისერი”
  • German: “Caesarea in Kappadokien”
  • German: “Caesarea Mazaca”
  • German: “Kajseri”
  • German: “Kayseri”
  • German: “Mazaka”
  • Gilaki: “قیصريه (تۊرکيه)”
  • Gilaki: “قیصريه”
  • Greek: “Καισαρεία”
  • Greek: “Καισάρεια”
  • Greek: “Μάζακα”
  • Gujarati: “કેસરી”
  • Hausa: “Kayseri”
  • Hebrew: “קייסרי”
  • Hindi: “कायसेरी”
  • Hindi: “केसरि”
  • Hungarian: “Kayseri”
  • Indonesian: “Kayseri”
  • Interlingue: “Kayseri”
  • Irish: “Kayseri”
  • Italian: “Caesareia Cappadociae”
  • Italian: “Caesareia”
  • Italian: “Cesarea in Cappadocia”
  • Italian: “Cesarea Mazaca”
  • Italian: “Kaiseri”
  • Italian: “Kayseri”
  • Italian: “Mazaca”
  • Italian: “Mazaka”
  • Japanese: “カイサレア”
  • Japanese: “カイセリ”
  • Kabardian: “Къайсэр”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಯ್ಸೇರಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Кайсери”
  • Kazakh: “Қайсері”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kayseri”
  • Kirghiz: “Кайсери”
  • Korean: “마자카”
  • Korean: “카이세리”
  • Kurdish: “Qeyserî (bajar)”
  • Kurdish: “Qeyserî”
  • Latin: “Caesarea Cappadociae”
  • Latin: “Caesarea in Cappadocia”
  • Latin: “Mazaca”
  • Latin: “Mazacus”
  • Latvian: “Cēzareja Mazaka”
  • Latvian: “Kajseri”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaiseris”
  • Lombard: “Cesarea de Capadocia”
  • Lombard: “Cesarea de Cappadòcia”
  • Lombard: “Kayseri”
  • Macedonian: “Кајсери”
  • Malagasy: “Kayseri”
  • Malay: “Kayseri”
  • Marathi: “केसरी”
  • Mazanderani: “کیسری”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kayseri”
  • Minangkabau: “Kayseri”
  • Mingrelian: “კაისერი”
  • Moksha: “Кайсэри”
  • Nauru: “Kayseri”
  • Nepali: “कायसेरी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kayseri (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kayseri”
  • Northern Luri: “قیصریه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Caesarea”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kayseri”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kayseri”
  • Norwegian: “Kayseri”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kayseri”
  • Ossetian: “Кайсери”
  • Ossetian: “Хъайсери”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “قیصریه”
  • Persian: “قیصری”
  • Persian: “قیصریه”
  • Persian: “کایسارئا مازاکا”
  • Persian: “کایسری”
  • Piemontese: “Kayseri”
  • Polish: “Cezarea Kapadocka”
  • Polish: “Kayseri”
  • Portuguese: “Caiseri”
  • Portuguese: “Cesareia de Capadócia”
  • Portuguese: “Cesareia Mazaca”
  • Portuguese: “Cesareia Mázaca”
  • Portuguese: “Cesaréia Mázaca”
  • Portuguese: “Cesareia na Capadócia”
  • Portuguese: “Cesareia”
  • Portuguese: “Kayseri”
  • Portuguese: “Mázaca”
  • Romanian: “Caesarea Mazaca”
  • Romanian: “Kayseri”
  • Romanian: “Mazaca”
  • Russian: “Кайсери”
  • Russian: “Каппадокийская Кесария”
  • Russian: “Кесарея Каппадокийская”
  • Russian: “Кесария Каппадокийская”
  • Russian: “Мазака”
  • Russian: “Цезарея Каппадокийская”
  • Russian: “Цезарея”
  • Sardinian: “Cesarea”
  • Scots: “Kayseri”
  • Serbian: “Caesarea Mazaca”
  • Serbian: “Kayseri”
  • Serbian: “Кајзери”
  • Serbian: “Кајсери”
  • Serbian: “Кападокијска Цезареја”
  • Serbian: “Цезареја Кападокијска”
  • Serbian: “Цезареја”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Caesarea Mazaca”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kajseri”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kayseri”
  • Sinhala: “කේසරි”
  • Slovak: “Caesarea Mazaka”
  • Slovak: “Caesarea”
  • Slovak: “Cézarea Kapadócka”
  • Slovak: “Cézarea”
  • Slovak: “Eusebeia”
  • Slovak: “Kaisareia Mazaka”
  • Slovak: “Kaisareia”
  • Slovak: “Kayseri”
  • Slovak: “Kesária Kappadocká”
  • Slovak: “Mazaka”
  • Slovenian: “Kayseri”
  • Somali: “Kayseri”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قئیصریه”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قیصریه”
  • Spanish: “Caesarea Mazaca”
  • Spanish: “Cesarea de Capadocia”
  • Spanish: “Cesarea Macaza”
  • Spanish: “Cesarea Mazaca”
  • Spanish: “Cesarea”
  • Spanish: “Kayseri”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Kayseri”
  • Swahili: “Kaisarea wa Kapadokia”
  • Swahili: “Kayseri”
  • Swedish: “Kaisarieh”
  • Swedish: “Kaisarije”
  • Swedish: “Kayseri”
  • Tajik: “Қайсари”
  • Tajik: “Қайсария”
  • Talysh: “Kajseri”
  • Tamil: “கெய்சேரி”
  • Tamil: “கேசரி”
  • Tatar: “Кайсәри”
  • Tatar: “Кайсери”
  • Telugu: “కేజారి”
  • Thai: “Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia”
  • Thai: “Caesarea Cappadociae”
  • Thai: “Caesarea in Cappadocia”
  • Thai: “Caesarea Mazaca”
  • Thai: “Cæsarea”
  • Thai: “Kayseri”
  • Thai: “Mazaca”
  • Thai: “ไกเซรี”
  • Thai: “คัยเซรี”
  • Thai: “ไคย์เซอรี”
  • Thai: “เซซาเรีย คาพะโดเคีย”
  • Thai: “เซซาเรีย มาซาคา”
  • Thai: “เซซาเรียในคาพะโดเคีย”
  • Thai: “มาซาคา”
  • Thai: “สังฆราชแห่งเซซาเรียคาพะโดเคีย”
  • Turkish: “Caesarea in Cappadocia”
  • Turkish: “Kaisareia”
  • Turkish: “Kaysaria”
  • Turkish: “Kayseri”
  • Turkish: “Mazaca”
  • Turkish: “Mazaka”
  • Tuvinian: “Кaйсери”
  • Tuvinian: “Кайсери”
  • Twi: “Kayseri”
  • Udmurt: “Кайсери”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайсері”
  • Ukrainian: “Кесарія Каппадокійська”
  • Urdu: “قیصری”
  • Urdu: “قیصریہ”
  • Uzbek: “Qayseri”
  • Venetian: “Kayseri”
  • Veps: “Kaiseri”
  • Vietnamese: “Kaiseri”
  • Vietnamese: “Kayseri”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kayseri”
  • Welsh: “Kayseri”
  • Western Armenian: “Կեսարիա”
  • Western Mari: “Кайсери”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیسری شہر”
  • Wu Chinese: “开塞利”
  • Yue Chinese: “開塞利”
  • “Cesarea de Capadocia”
  • “Kayseri”

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