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Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City", the ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire. The picturesque Golbasi, a symbolic recreation of a legend about Abraham, also a grat Islamic prophet. When was living in the city Abraham destroyed pagan gods, offending the local Assyrian king Nimrod, that decidet to kill the prophet on a funeral pyre. But God turned the fire into water and the burning coals into fish. So now 2 polls of water are filled with sacred carps.

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Turkey, from Mediterranean to Tigris river
Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City", the ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire. The picturesque Golbasi, a symbolic recreation of a legend about Abraham, also a grat Islamic prophet. When was living in the city Abraham destroyed pagan gods, offending the local Assyrian king Nimrod, that decidet to kill the prophet on a funeral pyre. But God turned the fire into water and the burning coals into fish. So now 2 polls of water are filled with sacred carps.