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Gaziantep, previously and still informally called Antep, is a city in the western part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region, some east of Adana and north of Aleppo, Syria. The city has two urban districts under its administration, Şahinbey and Şehitkamil. It is the sixth most populous city in Turkey. In 2014 the city of Gaziantep had a population of 1,465,019. ==Name== Gaziantep was formerly called Ayintab or Aïntab (عين تاب) in Ottoman Turkish, ˁAīntāb (عينتاب) in Arabic, and later Antep in standardized contemporary Turkish. There are several theories for the origin of the name: * "Aïntap" may be derived from "Khantap", meaning "king's land" in the Hittite language. * "Aïn", an Arabic (and Aramaic) meaning "spring", and "tap" word of praise, may have combined to form the name. * "Aïntap" could be a corruption of the Arabic ''"ayn tayyib"'' meaning ''good spring'' * "Ayn dab" (Aramaic), or "Ayn debo", meaning "spring of the wolf" * "Ayin ţaba" means "good spring" in Aramaic (however, the Arabic name for the city is spelled with t, not ṭ) The Crusaders called the city and its castle "Hantab", "Hamtab", and "Hatab".〔Gēorg A. Sarafean, Kevork Avedis Sarafian, ''A briefer history of Aintab: a concise history of the cultural, religious, educational, political, industrial and commercial life of the Armenians of Aintab'', Union of the Armenians of Aintab, 1957, p. 1.〕〔ibn al-Qalanisi, H.A.R. Gibb, editor and translator, ''The Damascus chronicle of the Crusades'', London 1932, (p. 367 ).〕 In February 1921, the Turkish parliament honored the city as غازى عينتاب "Ghazi Ayintab" 'Antep the war hero' to commemorate its resistance to the French Siege of Aintab during the Franco-Turkish War, part of the Turkish War of Independence, and that name was officially adopted in 1928 as Gaziantep. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gaziantep」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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