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sanliurfa[shAn´´luOOr´fA] Pronunciation Key, formerly Urfa[OOr´fA] Pronunciation Key, city (1990 pop. 278,516), capital of sanliurfa prov., SE Turkey. It is the trade center for a productive agricultural region and one of the most rapidly growing cities in Turkey due to its position in the midst of a large-scale irrigation development, with significant textile-related industries. The city was called Edessa until its incorporation in the Ottoman Empire in 1637. Its once large Christian population : mostly Armenian : suffered severe massacres in the late 19th cent.
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