Antiquity
Settled since the early Bronze Age, Hatay was once part of the Akkadian Empire, then of the Amorite Kingdom of Yamhad. Later, it became part of the Kingdom of Mitanni, then the area was ruled by

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Hatay is traversed by the north-easterly line of equal latitude and longitude. 46% of the land is mountain, 33% plain and 20% plateau and hillside. The

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The majority of the population adheres to Islam, belonging to either the Alawi branch of Shia Islam or Sunni Islam, but other minorities are also

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Mustafa Kemal University is one of Turkey's newer tertiary institutions, founded in İskenderun and Antakya in 1992.

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Cuisine
Hatay is warm enough to grow tropical crops such as sweet potato and sugar cane, and these are used in the local cuisine, along with other local

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• Mehmet Aksoy – sculptor (b. Antakya 1939– ) [2]
• Gökhan Zan – Galatasaray footballer, (b. Antakya 1981 )
• Selçuk İnan – Trabzonspor and Galatasaray footballer, (b. İskenderun 1985 )

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The province is served by Hatay Airport, as well as inter-city buses.

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