The origin of names of cities in Turkey - # 3 Gaziantep
Gaziantep is a city in the south east of Turkey a few miles to the Syrian border.
The city was formerly called Antep or Aintab, but when the citizens of Aintab defended themselves against the French army with courage the Turkish Parliament decided to give the city the title gazi, which means war veteran or war hero. Thus the name changed to Gaziayntab, meaning "Ayntab the war hero". In 1928 the name changed once more to Gaziantep.
There are many theories about the origin and the meaning of the name of this city.
According to Badr ad Din al Ayni (al-Ayni is an abbreviation for al-Ayntabi), a famous Islamical scholar and historian who was born in Ayntab in 1360 the ancient name of Ayntab was Qala al Fusus, which means ring castle. There was a tyrant ruler, who oppresed the people of this city. The name of this ruler was Ayni. After a long time of him oppressing the poor and weak he repented. So the people started saying: “Ayni repented!” Which in arabic is: “Ayni tab!” After a while the people of other cities refered to this city as Aynitab. So the name of the city became Aynitab.
In the Hittite language the name of this city was Hantap. When the Islamic army during the time of the Second Khalifa Umar ibn al-Khattab conquered the city and its surrounding with its beautiful springs and lakes, they called it bright spring, which in arabic is Ayntab.
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It's cool that the name of the city has its own history of origin, and a very interesting one😉The city looks stunning,I definitely want to visit it!☺️☺️☺️
Not just baklava but the whole Antep kitchen is yummy. I gained a kg a day on average when I visited there :)
My god that's really risky, I can't afford gaining one kilo per day🤣🤣🤣
Thanks:) Well I chose the nice pictures only, haha:) If you visit the city, you have to come in August. Because Gaziantep is famous for its pistachios and harvest time starts in August. And then you even can enjoy famous Baklava with fresh pistachios:)
baklava yummy :)
Yeah, the origion of baklava is in this region:)
Whaaat?They have pistachios there???!This city just keeps growing on me hahahaha Thank you for telling me when to go, hopefully I'll have a chance and time to go there☺️
You are welcome :) But like @readmore said, it's a bit risky :))
Awesome read, I think it's so cool when a name has roots in history. I guess people are very proud who come from Gaziantep !
Thanks! Yeah I think too, that it is very cool. Yeah, people are proud of their origion, also actually they didn't do anything:)
Haha yea that's true :)
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