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Karkamış, aka Kargamış, is a town and district of Gaziantep Province in southeastern Turkey, next to the site of ancient Karkemish. The population of the town was 2,998 in 2010. It is a border checkpoint on the road to Jarabulus in Syria. In 2004, 8,071 vehicles and 38,263 people passed the border checkpoint into Turkey while 8,795 vehicles and 35,474 people crossed it towards Syria. The River Euphrates runs east of Karkamış southwards into Syria. At this place, a railway bridge of that was built between 1911-1913 by German engineers as part of the Istanbul-Baghdad Railway, crosses the river parallel to the border line. One of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP), the Karkamış Dam and hydoelectric power station is located upstream from the border crossing of Euphrates. In March 2011, the Turkish military base which included Karkemish ruins was cleared of mines. Archaeologists from Italy and Turkey have begun excavations in the town in September 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ancient city to rise in SE Turkey area cleared of mines )〕 ==History== The Municipality of Karkamış was established in 1961, before then having been administratively under Nizip. At the time of the famous British Museum excavations at the nearby archaeological site to the East (1911–1914, 1920), Karkamış was not yet existing, only the railway station built by the Germans being already there, since the main village at that time was Jarabulus, now in Syria. After the Turkish War of Independence a settlement was established around the railway station named after the famous nearby archaeological site. 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「Karkamış」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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