Killis (كلّيس), a town of southern
Turkey in the
vilayet of
Aleppo, 60 m. north of the city of Aleppo. It is situated in an extremely fertile plain, and is surrounded with olive groves, the produce of which is reckoned the finest oil of all Syria; and its position on the carriage-road from Aleppo to
Aintab and
Birejik gives it importance. The population (20,000 in 1911) consisted largely of
Circassians,
Turkomans and
Arabs, the town lying just on the northern rim of the Arab territory.