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Municipality in Turkey
Photo: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kilis is a town in Southeastern Anatolia, just north of the Syrian border. In 2023 its population was 131,000.
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The city museum is in a former soap factory. It's temporarily closed.
This was centrepiece of an 16th-century Ottoman religious complex. In 2016 it was hit by a rocket from Syria, and re-building was still under way when the 2023 earthquake struck.
Ulu Camii
Built in its present form in 1388, this was damaged in the 2023 earthquake and is still under repair.
This is a tell, where successive periods of prehistoric building have heaped up into a large mound. It dates back to 4000 BCE, the Chalcolithic or Copper Age between the Neolithic and the Bronze. Excavations continue: the site is fenced off at other times, and how much you can see (if anything) is variable. The best artefacts such as mosaics are in museums at Gaziantep and Ankara, before the looters could grab them.
Pleasant hotel in a restored Ottoman mansion.
Simple but comfy and mostly clean.
Comfy hotel in a restored mansion.
Kilis is on Highway D-850 from Gaziantep (58 km) toward the Syrian border at Öncüpınar / Al-Salameh. The crossing is open 24 hours and the road continues south as A2 to A'zaz and Aleppo.
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