Gaziantep

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Gaziantep, previously and still informally called Antep, is a city in the western part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region, some 185km east of Adana and 97km north of Aleppo, Syria. The city has two urban districts under its administration, Şahinbey and Şehitkamil. It is the sixth most populous city in Turkey and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.NameGaziantep was formerly called Antep or Aīntāb in Ottoman Turkish, ‘Aīntāb in Arabic. There are several theories for the origin of the name: Aïntap may be derived from khantap, meaning "king's land" in the Hittite language. Aïn, an Arabic and Aramaic word meaning "spring", and tab as a word of praise. Antep could be a corruption of the Arabic ‘aīn ṭayyib meaning "good spring". However, the Arabic name for the city is spelled with t, not ṭ . Ayin dab or Ayin debo in Aramaic, meaning "spring of the wolf" The Crusaders called the city and its castle "Hantab", "Hamtab", and "Hatab".