Şanlıurfa, aften simply kent as Urfa in daily leid, in auncient times Edessa, is a ceity wi 482,323 indwallers (2009 estimate in sooth-eastren Turkey, an the caipital o Şanlıurfa Province. Urfa is situatit on a plain unner big open skies, aboot eighty kilometres east o the Euphrates River. The climate features extremely het, dry summers an ceul, moist winters.