Harran

Holy site

district and town in Şanlıurfa, Turkey and ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia

Location: 36.8708, 39.0250 · Pleiades 658427

What this place is

Holy site — where the bishop showed Egeria the church built on the foundations of Abraham's house and the well Rebecca drew from, and where the monks of all Mesopotamia came down once a year for his feast

Who is recorded here

Sahak III death · AD 703
Nahor residence

In art

File:Harran beehive houses (2).JPG — Zhengan

About the place

Harran is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 904 km2, and its population is 96,072 (2022). It is approximately 40 kilometres southeast of Urfa and 20 kilometres from the Syrian border crossing at Akçakale.

From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0