Gaziantep

Gaziantep is a city in the southeast of Turkey. It has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa in the Köppen climate classification) but is influenced by the continental climate due to its inland location. Gaziantep is well known for its dessert baklava. Gaziantep is the ninth biggest city in Turkey.

Gazantiep has had terrorist attacks in 2012, May 2016 and August 2016.

The city was badly damaged and many people died in the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake.

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Gaziantep Media

The Gypsy Girl is being displayed at Zeugma Mosaic Museum.
A bronze statue of Mars, Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology
The Oceanus and Tethys mosaic in Zeugma Mosaic Museum
Funerary portrait of a man, Palmyra (Syria), second or third century AD, presented in Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology
Gaziantep Zeugma Mosaic Museum Achilles mosaic
Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep
Zeugma Mosaic Museum Interior Entrance
Miniature of the Battle of Mercidabık as depicted in the Selimname. Selīm-nāma by Şūkrī-i Bitlisī f.216b. The Battle of Marj Dabiq (Mercidabık), circa 1516.
Aintab in the mid-19th century
Video showing damage to the castle and the nearby Şirvani Mosque on the day of the 2023 earthquake. Gaziantep Castle was first built by the Hittite Empire as an observation point and later built into a main castle by the Roman Empire.