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Osmaniye
Osmaniye is a small town (974 square kilometers) in Southeastern part of Turkey,
just north of the Gulf of Iskenderun of the Mediterranean Sea. It's one of the
latest towns of Turkey as until recently it was a district of Adana, it got the
status of province in 1996. Its population is approximately 190.000 and growing.
Osmaniye has a mild Mediterranean climate and is surrounded by fertile
agricultural fields and forests where carpentry and woodworking once dominated
the economy. Today the town is a processing center for the region's production
of cotton, wheat, corn, soybeans, and pistachios. Kilim weaving also has a great
value in some districts of Osmaniye.
Some if its districts are; Kadirli, Hasanbeyli, Sumbas, and Toprakkale. Today
there are many sites of interests in the towns' city limits such as Kastabala
Castle, Hemite, Frenk (ǡrdak), Toprakkale and Savranda (Kaypak) castles. There
is also Zorkun high plateau just 26 kilometers to southeast of the city and
Olukbasi high plateau just 16 kilometers, both providing refuge from the intense
summer heat of Cukurova plain and ample grazing for the domestic animals.
The lands surrounding the city was inhabited by a nation called Lelegs in the
Calcolithic and Early Bronze Age. In the following centuries, Great Hittite
State, Assyrian civilization, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Seljuk's and
finally Ottoman Empire reigned in the region.
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