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Industry

Kahramanmaraş's industry is mainly based on textile

Textile

A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands...

and ice cream. Kahramanmaraş is one of the biggest textile industry cities of Turkey. Companies like Kipaş, İskur, Arsan and Bozkurt are one of the richest companies in the city. Also, many of the American clothing companies like Aéropostale

Aéropostale (clothing)

Aéropostale, Inc. is a mall-based, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories, principally targeting 14-to-17-year-old young women and men through its Aéropostale stores and 7-to-12-year-old kids through its P.S. from Aéropostale stores...

and American Eagle

American Eagle Outfitters

American Eagle Outfitters is an American clothing and accessories retailer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1977 by Mark and Jerry Silverman as a subsidiary of Retail Ventures, Inc., a company which also owned and operated Silverman's Menswear...

are supplying their yarns from Kahramanmaraş.

Some of the internationally-known ice-cream companies like Mado, Yaşar Pastanesi, EDO and Ferah Pastanesi started their business in this ice-cream city and thousands of people visit Kahramanmaraş, just because of its ice-cream (dondurma

Dondurma

Dondurma is the name given to ice cream in Turkey. Dondurma typically includes the ingredients milk, sugar, salep, and mastic. It is believed to originate from the Turkish region of Kahramanmaraş and hence also known as Maraş Ice Cream.- Description :Two qualities distinguish Turkish ice cream:...

in Turkish).

The town was (and may still be) the home town of the 172nd Armoured Brigade of the Turkish Second Army.

Sports

The city has a local football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

team called; Kahramanmaraşspor

Kahramanmarasspor

Kahramanmaraşspor is a Turkish football club based in Kahramanmaraş....

which is currently in Turkish 2nd Division Category B Group 5. Kahramanmaraşspor plays its home games in Hanefi Mahçiçek Stadium. Some famous Turkish players like Mehmet Özdilek

Mehmet Özdilek

Mehmet Özdilek Nicknamed Şifo Mehmet. He began his football life at Ladikspor from Samsun. He is of Georgian descent by his family.-Playing career:...

and Kemalettin Şentürk

Kemalettin Sentürk

Kemalettin Şentürk is a retired Turkish footballer who spent most of his career at Turkish first division team Fenerbahçe SK.Mainly a sweeper, he could also operate as a defensive midfielder.-Football career:...

played in Kahramanmaraşspor before transferring to bigger clubs.

Notable natives

Leo III - Byzantine Emperor (717 - June 18, 741)
Nestorius
Nestorius
Nestorius was Archbishop of Constantinople from 10 April 428 to 22 June 431.Drawing on his studies at the School of Antioch, his teachings, which included a rejection of the long-used title of Theotokos for the Virgin Mary, brought him into conflict with other prominent churchmen of the time,...

- 5th century religious leader
Assyrian Church of the East
The Assyrian Church of the East, officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East ʻIttā Qaddishtā w-Shlikhāitā Qattoliqi d-Madnĕkhā d-Āturāyē), is a Syriac Church historically centered in Mesopotamia. It is one of the churches that claim continuity with the historical...
Karacaoğlan
Karacaoglan
Karacaoğlan is a 17th century Ottoman folk poet and ashik. His exact dates of birth and death are unknownbut it is widely accepted that he was born around 1606 and died around 1680...

- 17the century Turkish Poet and Ashik
Sünbülzade Vehbi - Turkish poet
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Necip Fazil Kisakürek
Ahmet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher and activist. He is also known with his initials NFK...

- Turkish poet and writer
Mehmet Akif İnan - Turkish poet and writer
Erdem Bayazıt - Turkish poet and writer
Cahit Zarifoğlu
Cahit Zarifoğlu
Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu , Turkish poet, writer.- Life :He is from Kahramanmaraş. Born in Ankara where the capital of Turkey in 1940 and he grown up in Kahramanmaraş. He started to writing at his highschool years at Kahramanmaraş High School with writing poems...

- Turkish poet and writer
Nuri Pakdil - Turkish poet and writer
Nazif Gürdoğan - Turkish writer and academician
Alaaddin Özdenören - Turkish poet and writer
Rasim Özdenören - Turkish poet and writer
Bejan Matur
Bejan Matur
Bejan Matur was born of an Alevi Kurdish family on 14 September 1968 in the ancient Hittite city of Marash in Southeast Turkey. Her first school education was in her village; later she attended the long-established Lycée in the region's most important cultural center Gaziantep. These years were...

- Turkish poet and writer
Aşık Mahzuni Şerif
Asik Mahzuni Serif
Aşık Mahzuni Şerif , also known as Mahsuni Şerif, was a folk musician, ashik, composer, poet, and author from Turkey.Mahzuni Şerif was born in Berçenek village of Afşin, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey in 1940...

- Turkish folk singer/songwriter
Kıraç
Kiraç
Ali Tufan Kıraç , better known as Kıraç, 1972 is a Turkish musician, known as a composer and performing artist.He has contributed albums such as Kayıp Şehir, Zaman and many others...

- Turkish singer/songwriter
Şeref Eroğlu
Seref Eroglu
Şeref Eroğlu is a Turkish wrestler who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal....

- European and World champion, Olympic medalist wrestler

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