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Mardin

Mardin (Syriac:???????; meaning fortresses) is a city in southeastern Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
. The capital of Mardin Province

Mardin Province

Mardin Province is a province of Turkey with a population of 745 778. The population was 835,173 in 2000.The capital of the Mardin Province is Mardin....
, it is known for its Arab

Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
-style architecture, and for its strategic location on a rocky mountain overlooking the plains of northern Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
. Mardin has a very mixed population, Turks

Turkish people

The Turkish people , also known as "Turks" are defined mainly as citizens of the Republic of Turkey. An early history text provided the definition of being a Turk as "any individual within the Republic of Turkey, whatever his faith who speaks Turkish, grows up with Turkish culture and adopts the Turkish ideal is a Turk." This ideal...
, Assyrian/Syriacs, Arab

Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
s and Kurds

Kurdish people

The Kurds are an Iranian peoples ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region that includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey and which is known as Kurdistan....
all represent large groups. There is also a small Armenian community in the region.
earliest settlers in Mardin were Syriacs, arriving in the 3rd century AD; in fact, the old Assyro-Babylonian religion

Assyro-Babylonian religion

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Mardin (Syriac:???????; meaning fortresses) is a city in southeastern Turkey

Turkey

Mardin Province

Mardin Province is a province of Turkey with a population of 745 778. The population was 835,173 in 2000.The capital of the Mardin Province is Mardin....
, it is known for its Arab

Arab

Syria

Turkish people

Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
s and Kurds

Kurdish people

History

The earliest settlers in Mardin were Syriacs, arriving in the 3rd century AD; in fact, the old Assyro-Babylonian religion

Assyro-Babylonian religion

The religions of Babylonia and Assyria are the earliest attestation of Ancient Semitic religion, in particular Mesopotamian mythology. As with other ancient cultures in Mesopotamia and elsewhere, the predominant religious model in the area was polytheism, a belief in many gods....
existed in Mardin until the 18th century. Most Syriac Orthodox churches and monasteries in the city, which are still active today, date from the 5th century AD, such as the Deyrülzafarân Monastery. Mardin is likely the Maride

Maride

Maride was a castle or fortified town in Mesopotamia, mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus , in his account of Constantius II. There can be no doubt that it is the same as the present Mardin, Turkey which is seated on a considerable eminence looking southward over the plains of Mesopotamia....
and Marida

Marida

Marida is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. Its last bishop was Jean Hermil. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Osroene, under the metropolitan of Edessa....
of the Greeks and Romans. Another important church, Kirklar Kilisesi (Church of the 40 Martyrs), originally built in the name of Benham and Saro, the two sons of the Assyrian ruler who executed them because they chose to become Christian, dates from 569 AD. , and even during its use as a capital by the Artukid Turkish

Oghuz Turks

The Oghuz were a group of loosely linked nomadic Turkic peoples. In the ninth century the Oghuz Turks from the Aral steppes drove the Pechenegs of the Emba region and the Ural River toward the west....
dynasty which ruled Eastern Anatolia

Anatolia

Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
and Northern Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern Iraq, as well as some parts of northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khuzestan Province of southwestern Iran....
between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. .The 12th century Sitti Radviyye Madrasa, the oldest of its kind in Anatolia

Anatolia

Mongols

The name Mongol specifies one or several ethnic groups, now mainly located in Mongolia, China, and Russia....
who took control of the region in 1394, but the Mongols never directly governed the area. Mardin was later controlled by the Turkish Akkoyunlu kingdom. The Kasimiye Madrasa was built by Sultan Kasim, son of the Akkoyunlu Sultan Cihangir, between 1457 and 1502.

Trivia

Mardin is the one of the two main settings in the popular Turkish television series Sila
Sila

Sila or sila is usually rendered into English as "virtue"; other translations include "good conduct," "morality" "moral discipline." and "precept." It is an action that is an intentional effort....
.

Famous People from Mardin

Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh, Order of Canada was a Canada photography of Armenians heritage, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time....
Photographer 1908-2002

Malak Karsh

Malak Karsh

Malak Karsh, Order of Canada was a Canada photographer, brother of Yousuf Karsh, who is best known for his photographs of the Ottawa region....
Photographer 1915-2001

Mardin

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Famous People from Mardin

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