Kahramanmaraş Province

Kahramanmaraş (Turkis: Kahramanmaraş ili; or simply Maraş Province) is a province o Turkey. Its provincial caipital is Kahramanmaraş ceety, the traffeck code is 46.

Location o Kahramanmaraş Province in Turkey

Geography

Kahramanmaraş is traversed bi the northeasterly line o equal latitude an langitude.

Destricts

Kahramanmaraş province is dividit intae 10 destricts:

• Afşin
• Andırın
• Çağlayancerit
• Ekinözü
• Elbistan
• Göksun
• Kahramanmaraş
• Nurhak
• Pazarcık
• Türkoğlu

History

Kahramanmaraş wis kent historically as Maraş an wis a dounset syne pre-historic times.

The ceety received tae title o Kahraman (Heroic) frae the Turkis Grand Naitional Assembly (TBMM) for the heroic struggle bi the local ceevilian population against the occupyin Breetish an then French airmed forces efter the First Warld War (see Sütçü İmam Incident [1] Archived 2004-12-30 at the Wayback Machine). It wis ane o the first "free" towns efter Warld War I.

Economy

Maraş haes historically been famous for its gowd. The textile industry is relatively new an maistly machinatit.

Education

The Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University [2] is a recently foondit varsity supplyin social, leid an technical sciences as well as medical eddication.

Cuisine

The province's maist famous culinary speciality is the ice cream, "Maraş ice cream", available in specialist ice cream shops throughoot Turkey. The ice cream haes an elastic consistency an is served wi knife an fork, aften accompanied bi a slice o baklava. It melts in your mooth while you chew it, seemilar tae bubble gum.

Maraş red peppers are an aa weel kent for its aroma, Vitamin C content, an moderate hotness. Maraş pepper is different frae far-east chilies as dried wi support o Scienteefic Investigations an Varsities which contains nae aflatoxin an nae diseases.

See an aa

• Düzbağ

Freemit airtinss

• Kahramanmaraş Weather Forecast Information Archived 2009-02-27 at the Wayback Machine
• Kahramanmaraş Ceety Portal Archived 2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine