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Şanlıurfa, pronounced [ʃanˈlɯuɾfa], often simply known as Urfa in daily language (Kurdish Riha, Arabic الرها al-Ruhā, Syriac ܐܘܪܗ Urhoy, Armenian Ուռհա Owr'ha), in ancient times Edessa, is a city with 482,323 inhabitants (2009 estimate) in south-eastern Turkey, and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province. It is a city with a predominant Kurdish and Turkmen population. Urfa is situated on a plain under big open skies, about eighty kilometres east of the Euphrates River. The climate features extremely hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters.
The city has been known by many names in history: Ուռհա Owr'ha in Armenian, ܐܘܪܗܝ Urhai in Syriac, ره, الرها, al-Ruhā in Arabic and Ορρα, Orrha in Greek (also Ορροα, Orrhoa). For a while it was named Callirrhoe or Antiochia on the Callirhoe (Ancient Greek: Αντιόχεια η επί Καλλιρρόης). During Byzantine rule it was named Justinopolis. Prior to Turkish rule, it was often best known by the name given it by the Seleucids, Εδεσσα, Edessa.
Şanlı (from Arabic shan (شأن) "dignity" + Turkish adjectival suffix -lı) means "great, glorious, dignified" in Turkish, and Urfa was officially renamed Şanlıurfa (Urfa the Glorious) by the Turkish Grand National Assembly in 1984, in recognition of the local resistance in the Turkish War of Independence. The title was achieved following repeated requests by the city's members of parliament, desirous to earn a title similar to those of neighbouring cities 'Gazi' (veteran) Antep and 'Kahraman' (Heroic) Maraş.
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Try To Say Goodbye
Jory Eve
(I Still Know What You Did Last Summer)
I'm holding a letter that I wrote last night
Tryin' to remember what it says inside
The words are written but never been said
Your voice keeps calling in my head
I don't believe it's time
But I try to say goodbye
But I feel so lost inside
I don't know my name
And I can't erase what's weighing on my mind
It says I'd be leavin' on a redeye plane
But I know I'm coming back again
You've heard the story a thousand times
The song is playing in your mind
I'm asking myself why
Then I try to say goodbye...
But I feel so lost inside
I don't know my name
I can't erase what's weighing on my mind
I try to stay awake, trying to write the words
And I'm trying to write the word goodbye
... to say goodbye
But I feel so lost inside
I don't know my name
And I can't erase what's weighing on my mind
And I try to say goodbye
But I feel so lost inside
And I try to say goodbye
And I try...
And I try... to say goodbye
And I try to say goodbye
I try...