Kahramanmaraş: The city of poets

Let us consider a city. A place that is both provincial and central. Quiet, yet resonant. A city whose poets are recorded in biographical anthologies, whose madrasas produced scholars, whose dervish lodges nurtured poets and whose marketplaces echoed with the music of wandering minstrels. A river has flowed here uninterrupted since the sixteenth century — and that river is called Kahramanmaraş.