Araban () is a municipality and

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. Its area is 592 km², and its population is 32,933 (2022). The district was established in 1957.

History

The city was historically known as Raban. In October/November 958, the

Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived History of the Roman Empire, the events that caused the ...

led by

John Tzimiskes John I Tzimiskes (; 925 – 10 January 976) was the senior Byzantine emperor from 969 to 976. An intuitive and successful general who married into the influential Skleros family, he strengthened and expanded the Byzantine Empire to inclu ...

and

Basil Lekapenos Basil Lekapenos (; – ), also called the Parakoimomenos () or the Nothos (, "the Bastard"), was an illegitimate child of the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos. He served as the '' parakoimomenos'' and chief minister of the Byzantine Empire f ...

managed to defeat

Sayf al-Dawla ʿAlī ibn ʾAbū'l-Hayjāʾ ʿAbdallāh ibn Ḥamdān ibn Ḥamdūn ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taghlibī (, 22 June 916 – 8 February 967), more commonly known simply by his honorific of Sayf al-Dawla (, ), was the founder of the Emirate of Aleppo, ...

of the

Hamdanids The Hamdanid dynasty () was a Islam, Shia Muslim Arab dynasty that ruled modern day Northern Mesopotamia and Bilad al-Sham , Syria (890–1004). They descended from the ancient Banu Taghlib tribe of Mesopotamia and Arabia. History Origin ...

at the

Battle of Raban The Battle of Raban was an engagement fought in autumn 958 near the fortress of Raban (in modern-day Turkey) between the Byzantine army, led by John Tzimiskes (later emperor in 969–976), and the forces of the Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo under t ...

. Raban was ruled by the Armenian ruler

Kogh Vasil Kogh Vasil, or Vasil the Robber (; died on 12 October 1112), was the Armenian ruler of Raban and Kaisun at the time of the First Crusade. Biography Origins The father of Kogh Vasil was the brigand leader Łazarik (Ghazar, i.e. Lazarus), called ...

, following the

First Crusade The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Muslim conquest ...

in 1097. It was captured by Mesud I in April 1150, before it was burned by the

Mongols Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China ( Inner Mongolia and other 11 autonomous territories), as well as the republics of Buryatia and Kalmykia in Russia. The Mongols are the principal member of the large family o ...

in the 13th century. In 1268, King Hethum I had to surrendered several fortresses including Raban to

Baibars Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari (; 1223/1228 – 1 July 1277), commonly known as Baibars or Baybars () and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh (, ), was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, of Turkic Kipchak origin, in the Ba ...

, who had imprisoned Hethum's son, Leo, following the Battle of Mari.

Composition

There are 49

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in Araban District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. * Akbudak * Akkoç * Altınpınar * Aşağıkaravaiz * Aşağıyufkalı * Bağlıca * Başpınar * Beydili * Çiftekoz * Dağdancık * Doğan * Dumlupınar * Elif * Emirhaydar * Erenbağ * Esentepe * Eskialtıntaş * Fakılı * Fevziçakmak * Fıstıklıdağ * Gelinbuğday * Gökçepayam * Güllüce * Gümüşpınar * Güzey * Hasanoğlu * Hisar * Kale * Karababa * Karacaören * Köklüce * Körhacıobası * Küçüklü * Mehmet Gökçek * Muratlı * Nurettin * Sarıkaya * Sarıtepe * Şerif Peri * Tarlabaşı * Taşdeğirmen * Turgut Özal * Yaylacık * Yeni Altıntaş * Yeşilova * Yolveren * Yukarıkaravaiz * Yukarıyufkalı * Ziyaret

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External links

District governor's page
Populated places in Gaziantep Province Districts of Gaziantep Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey {{Gaziantep-geo-stub

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