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  Malatya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Malatya is a city in south-eastern Turkey, and the capital of Malatya Province.
The area surrounding Malatya is best known for its apricot orchards, nourished from the alluvial soil of tributaries of the Euphrates.
Malatya apricots are often dried in the sun by traditional family-run orchards, collected and shipped throughout the world.
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 Encyclopedia: List of cities in Turkey
Kars is a city in northeast Turkey and the capital of the Kars Province, formerly at the head of a sanjak in the Turkish vilayet of Erzurum.
Ottoman houses and a pontic tomb in Amasya Amasya (formerly Amaseia or Amasia) is a town in northern Turkey, the capital of Amasya Province with approximately 80,000 inhabitants.
Kastamonu is the capitol district of the Kastamonu Province, Turkey.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-cities-in-Turkey   (1279 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Malatya Province Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The capital, Malatya, is situated at the foot of the Anti-Taurus Mountains, and is an agricultural, industrial and stockbreeding center of Eastern Anatolia.
The capital, Malatya (population 400,000), is situated at the foot of the Anti-Taurus Mountains, and is an agricultural, industrial and stockbreeding center of Eastern Anatolia.
The archaeological finds from Malatya are housed in the city museum, including new artifacts found in the lower Euphrates region, dating to the Neolithic and Calcholithic Ages.
www.ipedia.com /malatya_province.html   (277 words)

  
 Apricot - Kayısı - Malatya Malatya bulunmaz eşin
In Turkey, the apricot is synonymous with Malatya.
Malatya is known to be the primary source for Turkish dried apricots.
Malatya dried apricots are richer than all the other varieties grown throughout the world in terms of vitamins A, B1, B2, C, Beta Carotene, mineral substances, energy and proteins.
halitalhan.8m.com /malatya5.html   (752 words)

  
 Malatya Province -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Malatya Province is a province in Anatolia ((A Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923) Turkey).
The capital of the province is (additional info and facts about Malatya) Malatya (kurdish: Meletî once hethitic Milid), which has
The area of Malatya province is 12.313 km².
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/malatya_province.htm   (82 words)

  
 About Adiyaman, Turkey-adiyamanli.org
Each province is then subdivided into smaller administrative units called ilçe (district), roughly equivalent to a county in the U.S. Provinces are usually named after the biggest city in that province.
Vali (governor) administers the province, kaymakam the districts (ilçe), and nahiye müdürü oversees the bucak.
Situated in Southeastern Turkey, Adiyaman Province is flanked by the provinces of Diyarbakir (to the East), Malatya (to the North), Kahramanmaras; (to the West), Sanlizurfa anda Gaziantep (to the South).
www.adiyamanli.org /about_adiyaman.htm   (851 words)

  
 Gaziantep Province Article, GaziantepProvince Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Gaziantep is a province in south-central Turkey, and is also thename of the province's capital and largest city (population 853,513 as of 2000).
An important trading center since ancient times, the province is also one of Turkey's major manufacturing zones, and its agriculture is dominated by the growing of pistachio nuts.
Originally known as Antep, the title gazi (meaning veteran in Turkish) was added to the province's and the provincial capital's name in 1921, due to its population's extraordinary courage during Turkish War of Independence.
www.anoca.org /turkish/war/gaziantep_province.html   (200 words)

  
 CULTURE IN ADIYAMAN, Turkey-Adiyamanli.org
The province stretches to the Euphrates valley in the east and the Aksu depression in the west.
It is bounded by the Malatya Mountains on the north and in the south it is made up of valleys between countered hills.
In 1954 Malatya was carved up into two provinces resulting in the creation of the Adıyaman province with the city of Adıyaman as its provincial capital.
www.adiyamanli.org /Adiyaman/culture.htm   (2999 words)

  
 Malatya, Turkey, Pictures
Malatya, city in eastern Turkey, capital of Malatya Province, on the plateau of Anatolia, at the foot of the Malatya Mountains (a part of the Taurus range).
Malatya is a rail junction and trade center for an area producing grains, fruit, vegetables, and opium.
Malatya was rebuilt in 1893 following an earthquake, and in 1895 an Ottoman massacre of Armenians took place here.
www.greatestcities.com /Middle_East/Turkey/Malatya_city.html   (208 words)

  
 Erhac Air Base, Turkey
During the course of history since ancient times, Malatya has enjoyed strategic importance, because of its location at the intersection of the trading routes coming from the Central Asia, the Middle East and Mesopotamia and continuing on the passageway to the west.
Malatya is a sort of outpost for nomads who move their sheep into these high mountains for summer pasture.
Malatya is actually two towns, the modern town and the Eski Malatya, the old walled city, which is about 6 miles (10 km) north of Malatya proper.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/erhac.htm   (300 words)

  
 The Cultivation of the Opium Poppy in Turkey
In many provinces in which opium used to be produced, the poppy-plant is still being grown today, but growers are not allowed to harvest anything but the seeds, and incision of the capsules is prohibited.
The area in which the poppy-plant may be grown only for seed purposes comprises twenty-two provinces in addition to those in which opium is harvested, but in these twenty-two provinces poppy-growing, išrestricted to districts which are indicated each year in a special decree of the Council of Ministers.
The northern district comprises chiefly the province of Tokat.
www.poppies.org /news/99501860170894.shtml   (8001 words)

  
 LATEST FIGURES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The province centers with highest particulate mater concentration in the same period are; Rize, Sakarya, Sivas, Bayburt, and Zonguldak.
Province centers with highest decreaese of sulphurdioxide (SO2) concentration are; Samsun (Merkez) and Nigde (Merkez) (49 %), Corum (32 %), Aydin (30 %), Erzincan (29 %), and Kahramanmaras (28 %).
Province centers with highest decreaese of particulate matter are Bilecik (Bozuyuk) (46 %), Bingol (43 %), Kahramanmaras (42 %), Erzincan (41 %), and Bilecik (Merkez), Erzurum, and Kýrýkkale (31 %).
www.die.gov.tr /english/SONIST/CEVRE/250196.html   (172 words)

  
 beyaz malatya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Malatya is situated at the foot of the antiTaurus Mountains,...
The province of Malatya is located at the Upper Firat river basin area of the...
Malatya is located in the south of Anatolia, close to the border with Syria.
beyaz.linkleriniz.com /malatya.html   (429 words)

  
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Due to the composition arising from the ecology of the province, Malatya origin apricots gained economic value in the form of dried apricots for years This province, which is located in the Central Eastern Anatolian Region, produces nearly half of the crop.
On the other hand, the province of Izmir has been recorded as the main export area for Turkish dried fruits like apricots, sultana raisins, figs, thanks to the established big processing and exporting companies by years.
70% of the young apricot trees of Malatya is produced by public sectors, and 30% by the private sector.
www.asofood.com /DriedApricots.doc   (1890 words)

  
 TURKEY: CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL PROMPTS CRITICISM OF PARTISAN APPOINTMENTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The hidden camera placed in a state-run child care centre in the province of Malatya on 25 October, showed a group of children under the age of six beaten by the employees of the center.
Malatya deputy of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Ferit Aslanoglu, said that it was inevitable such incidents would occur.
A group of girls, aged between 13 and 18, in a state-run dormitory in the southeast province of Sanliurfa, claimed that the director of the dormitory, Aytekin Erdogan, was visiting their bedrooms at night under the premise of inspection, harassing and sometimes beating them.
www.adnki.com /index_2Level.php?cat=Trends&loid=8.0.224703098&par=   (749 words)

  
 Anatolia.com
Malatya is situated at the foot of the antiTaurus Mountains, and is an agricultural, industrial and stockbreeding center of Eastern Anatolia.
Inside the town, there is the Ulu Mosque of 1247 which was built by the Seljuks, reflecting their distinct architectural style.
Copper objects are sold along an entire street here, and it is a nice shopping place which will add color to your holiday.
www.anatolia.com /anatolia/destinations/malatya   (247 words)

  
 Turkey Provinces
These, therefore, are the province populations used by the State Institute of Statistics to compute per capita GDP for 2001.
It leaves the FIPS code for Bolu province unchanged, although Düzce was split from Bolu, and usually when a province loses territory its FIPS code will change.
province, except for a few provinces created after this system was instituted (numbers greater than 74).
www.statoids.com /utr.html   (1375 words)

  
 1esultan
Sultansuyu Dam was designed for irrigation purposes and was built on Sultansuyu in Malatya province.
It is earth fill type and 1.350.000 m³ of excavation and 3.200.000 m³ of filling were required during the construction.
The dam has a reservoir capacity of 53.3 x 109 m³ with a 2.625 x 109 m³ reservoir area.
www.yukselinsaat.com.tr /www.yuksel.net/ebaraj/1esultan.htm   (76 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Turkish military planes crash, four killed
Two Turkish military planes crashed on Thursday during a training mission in the southeastern province of Malatya, killing the four airmen aboard, the army said.
Both Malatya and Diyarbakir are home to major air bases, which the United States is asking the Turkish government to use for a possible military operation against neighbouring Iraq.
Thirty-four soldiers were killed in 2001 in Malatya when their military cargo plane crashed.
iafrica.com /news/worldnews/200232.htm   (276 words)

  
 VOANews.com - Turkey Steps Up Crackdown on Kurdish Language Campaign
At least 17 students were jailed on charges of promoting separatism in the largely Kurdish Malatya Province.
Abdurrahman Demir is a 20-year-old student at Dicle University in the largely Kurdish Diyarbakir Province.
The Turkish government says the Kurdish language campaign, which began in November, is being orchestrated by the Kurdistan Workers' Party to rekindle separatist sentiments among the country's estimated 12 million Kurds.
www.help-for-you.com /news/Jan2002/Jan22/PRT22-208Article.html   (383 words)

  
 Aprikot information page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The cultivation of apricots finds its best environment in the province of Malatya due to the ecological advantages, so the worldwide famous and high quality dried apricots are produced in Malatya.
Two important quality criteria of dried apricots with regards to the standards are the moisture ans CO contents and in NOVIA we regularly control these criterials before purchasements of raw material, during the production and in the end-product prior to any shipments in addition to all other physical analysis.
Size: 1 / 3 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 Malatya, whole-pitted are also available and when it's required the packaging in cinsumer type foam trays coverd by plastic film is deliverable too.
www.novia-food.com /uk/apricots.html   (153 words)

  
 CNN.com - Turkish military plane crash kills 34 - May 16, 2001
Military sources told CNN Turk the plane was carrying 28 special forces troops and six crew members when it came down on Wednesday morning in Malatya province.
CNN Turk reported that the pilot lost control of the aircraft at 5,000 metres (17,000 feet) and fell into a steep dive, crashing into a field at 1:15 pm local time (1015 GMT) about 650 kilometres (400 miles) southeast of Ankara.
Witnesses in Malatya said they saw the plane explode and fall from the sky in flames.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/05/16/turkey.crash.02   (329 words)

  
 Aso Food Industry
In apricot production, especially Darende, Hekimhan, Akçadag and Central districts are the significant ones in Malatya province.
The characteristic, which makes it world wide famous, is the dry material content.
While the dry material content of Malatya apricots, vary between 24 % and 30 %, the maximum dry material content of other varieties was observed at only 20 %.
www.asofood.com /driedap2.html   (149 words)

  
 ECONOMICS AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF APRICOTS
However, the principal growing region is in east Anatolia, namely in the Province of Malatya from where almost half of the total production is obtained from some 5 million trees.
Table apricots are mostly grown in the provinces of içel, Hatay, Kars, Nevsehir, Adana, Antalya and izmir.
However, in Malatya, Kars and içel range from 65 to 100 kg per tree.
www.actahort.org /books/384/384_1.htm   (174 words)

  
 SkyscraperCity Forums - View Single Post - An Inland Province:Malatya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Here are some pictures from different corners of Malatya.The city of Malatya is the capital of the same named province.
The area had been inhabited since the Neolithic ages, mainly because of its geographic position at the crossroads of major trade routes; the famous Route of Kings and the Silk Road.
Another interesting day trip is to Eski Malatya (Old Malatya), 12km north of the modern city, which is a ruined Roman town with remains of some old city walls, mosques and caravanserais."(MOT)
www.skyscrapercity.com /showpost.php?p=2723946&postcount=1   (185 words)

  
 CNN.com - Special forces die in Turkey crash - May 17, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Casa CN-235 cargo plane was carrying members of Turkey's Special Forces from the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir to the capital of Ankara when it crashed in the Malatya province.
As an investigation got under way, a military official said a technical failure appeared to be the cause of the crash.
Some witnesses in Malatya said they saw the plane explode and fall from the sky in flames.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/05/17/turkey.plane   (585 words)

  
 JAFARIYA NEWS, January 10 News
MALATYA, Turkey: Two Turkish F4-fighter planes have collided mid-air in the southeastern province of Malatya hours after a Turkish RJ-100 airbus crashed near Diyarbakir in the same region leaving 75 on board dead.
There are unconfirmed reports that all four airmen aboard killed in the crash.
Although Malatya province has been shrouded in the same thick fog that has covered Diyarbakir and is being blamed for Wednesday's commercial flight crash, the cause of the mid-air collision is not known.
www.jafariyanews.com /2k3_news/jan/10_News.htm   (625 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Turkish military planes in collision
Two Turkish fighter planes have collided mid-air in the south-eastern province of Malatya.
There are unconfirmed reports that all four airmen aboard died in the crash.
The cause of the mid-air collision is unknown, although Malatya province has been shrouded in the same thick fog which has covered Diyarbakir and is being blamed for Wednesday's commercial crash.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2641747.stm   (653 words)

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