Hatay

"La provincia de Hatay es una de las 81 provincias de Turquía, situada en el sur del país, en la costa del Mediterráneo. Después de la Primera Guerra Mundial y con la partición del Imperio otomano, la región fue ocupada por Francia y hasta 1938 formó parte del mandato francés en Siria. Desde 1938, y durante un año, existió como entidad semi-independiente con el nombre de Estado de Hatay. Siria la reclama como parte de su territorio.[cita requerida] Su capital es Antioquía. Otra ciudad famosa de la provincia es Alejandreta. * Superficie: 9.887,565 km² * Población (2000): 2.546.245 * Densidad de población: 47,03 hab/km² * Capital: Antioquía"

"Hatay Province (Turkish: Hatay ili, pronounced [hataj]) is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast. The administrative capital is Antakya (Antioch), and the other major city in the province is the port city of skenderun (Alexandretta). It is bordered by Syria to the south and east and the Turkish provinces of Adana and Osmaniye to the north. The province is part of Çukurova (Cilicia), a geographical, economical and cultural region that covers the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye, and Hatay. There are border crossing points with Syria in the district of Yaylada and at Cilvegözü in the district of Reyhanl. Sovereignty over the province remains disputed with neighbouring Syria, which claims that the province was separated from itself against the stipulations of the French Mandate of Syria in the years following Syria's independence from the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Although the two countries have remained generally peaceful in their dispute over the territory, Syria has never formally renounced its rights to it."