Maps of Osmaniye - Osmaniye Map, Turkey
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Osmaniye
Osmaniye is a beautiful city with its fertile agricultural fields and its broad forests. The province of Osmaniye is an important tourism center with Karatepe, Aslantas Open Air Museum and Ancient cities.
The lands surrounding the city was inhabited by a nation called Lelegs in the Calcolithic and Early Bronze Age. In the following centuries, Great Hittite State, Asurian civilization, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Seljukians and finally Ottoman Empire reigned in the region.
The city had declared to become a province after the declaration of the Republic but had been demoted to the status of a district in 1933.
