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Area: 974 km² , Population: 458.782
GENERAL INFORMATION
The province of Osmaniye is a beautiful city with its fertile agricultural fields and its broad forests. The province of Osmaniye is an important tourism center with Karatepe, Aslantaş Open Air Museum and Ancient cities.
HOW TO GET
Highway: The bus station is located in the city center.
Railway: The railway station is located in the city center.
Sea Transportation: The sea transportation is executed via the İskenderun Seaport located at 75 km distance to the Osmaniye Province.
Air Transportation: Air transportation is possible via the airports located in Adana and Gaziantep provinces.
DON'T LEAVE WITHOUT
- Visiting the Zorkun plateau,
- Visiting the Karatepe Open Air Museum,
- Buying the pileless carpet painted with root paints and sold in the Karatepe Pileless Carpet Cooperative,
- Tasting the ground peanut of Osmaniye.
KARATEPE - ASLANTAS OPEN AIR MUSEUM
The open air museum is located at the southeast of Kadirli district and is at 22 kilometers distance to the district, 30 kilometers distant to the Osmaniye Province and 130 kilometers distant to Adana province.
There are two burnt building ruins which are assumed to be the palace and the grain storage wells located on the hill. The castle has two main entrances which are located at southwest and northeast respectively. There are two statues of lions with broken pieces at the southwest entrance gate. At the left and right side chambers, there are reciprocal Finike (peg writings) and Hittite hieroglyph inscriptions located on the swarthy and light yellow, hard pieced basalt stone blocks in the style of wall plating depicting the daily living and religious activities in the form of various figure relieves (stone embossed designs) and similar inscriptions. The 3 meter long statue depicting the God of Storms is located inside the gate. At the southeastern gate, there are two reciprocal sphinxes with human heads and lion bodies. The left and right chambers contain the relief of the God of Sun and various other relieves together with the reciprocal Finike (peg writings) and Hittite hieroglyph inscriptions.
The Finike (peg writings) discovered in this ancient city had provided a key for the decryption of the Hittite hieroglyphs which were not been able to be decrypted wholly before. The Hittite inscriptions in the world had been primarily decrypted and read in this ancient city. After the decryption of these incriptions, the entire hieroglyph inscriptions located in Anatolia extending to the date of BC 2000 was been able to read.
The ruins and findings of Karatepe - Aslantaş ancient city had been exhibited at the same location by founding an open air museum.
BODRUMKALE -KASTABALA CITY
(Hierapolis) It is located in the borders of Kesmeburim Village and Bahçe Village which are at 15 kilometers distance to Osmaniye province.
The most important ancient remains that could be able to reach today in good condition in Kastabala are the avenue with pillars and its amphitheater with five thousand spectator capacity. Beside those, the other important ruins of the ancient city are two churches, the castle, the Roman bath , the stadium, the necropolis' surrounding all around the city and the ruins of the aqueduct constructed over the Ceyhan river located approximately 5 km north-east of the city. Kastabala is one of the most important promenade areas and touristic places of Osmaniye province.
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