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Area:14.327 km² , Population: 1.002.384
GENERAL INFORMATION
The province of Kahramanmaraş is located inside the borders of Eastern Anatolia Region. The province is famous with its peculiar ice cream. Kahramanmaraş has an important tourism potential with its caves, Külliye of Eshab-i Keyf and its plateaus.
HOW TO GET
Highway: The bus station is 500 meters distant to the city center. The transport to the bus station is possible via shared and commercial taxis.
Railway: The Kahramanmaraş railway station provides the connection of the city to the rest of the country.
Air transportation: The Kahramanmaraş Airport is at 8 km. distance to the city center. Reaching to the airport is possible via commercial and shared taxis.
DON'T LEAVE WITHOUT
- Visiting Eshab-i Kehf Cave, Döngel Cave and Kahramanmaraş Castle,
- Tasting Kahramanmaraş pounded ice cream,
- Tasting Tarhana ,
- Buying silver and gilt threaded works, wooden works, hand made copper objects and hot pepper and tarhana,
- Buying and wearing Kahramanmaraş boots and yemeni.
KAHRAMANMARAŞ MUSEUM
The museum is composed of three main sections. In the archeological findings section, various objects and tools, statuettes, cooked earth and glass pottery and jewelry from the Prehistoric, Early Bronze, Hittite, Iron Age, Roman and Byzantine periods are exhibited. In the Ethnography Section, the local traditional embroidered man and woman clothing, various jewelry, forge embroidered copper pottery, nacre embroidered wooden furniture and frames, silver - nacre embroidered wooden jewel boxes and various battle equipment is exhibited.
ESHAB-I KEYF KULLIYE AND MOSQUE
The most important mosques of the Kahramanmaraş Province could be counted as Ulu Mosque, Elbistan Ulu Mosque and Hatuniye Mosque. The Taş Theological School constructed by the Ulu Mosque was dedicated to the daughter of Dulkadirli Alâüddevle Bey.
Eshab-i Kehf (Seven sleepers) Külliye The building group located on a steep hill which is 8 km. west of the Afşin District is from 12th century. This group of buildings are composed of a Mosque, a caravansary, a Ribat and numerous undetermined small structures.
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