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MARDIN, The great and historic Ancient City of of Turkey

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A magnificent 4,000-year history

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Mardin (Syriac: ܡܪܕܺܝܢ; meaning fortress) is a city in southeastern Turkey. The capital of the province of Mardin, is known for its Arab-style architecture and for its strategic location on a rocky hill overlooking the plains of northern Syria.

Most of the Syrian Orthodox churches and monasteries built in the city of Assyria, Babylon and temples are still in use today. Monasteries as Deyrülzafarân monastery dating back 4000 years.

Mardin is probably Maride Marida and by the Greeks and Romans. Another important church Kırklar Kilisesi (Church of 40 Martyrs), originally built in the name of Benham and Saro, the two Assyrian king’s son who executed them because they chose to become a Christian, is from 569 AD. And even in its use of capital Artukid Turkish dynasty which ruled Eastern Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. 12. Sitti Madras Radviyye century, the oldest of its kind in Anatolia for the period.

Land Artukid dynasty fell to the Mongols, who took control of the region in 1394, but the Mongols did not directly govern the area. Mardin was later controlled by the Turkish kingdom Akkoyunlu. The madrasa was built by Sultan Kasımiye Kasim, son of Sultan Cihangir Akkoyunlu, between 1457 and 1502. In 1517 it was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. 1915-1916 Arab Christians, Aramaic and Armenian of all religions were killed or expelled. August 15, 1915, a public auction of Armenian women were held for the first time.

Mardin Mosques:

Melikşah Grand Mosque (Ulucami Neighborhood in Central Mardin)
Melik Mahmud Mosque (in Savurkapı Neighborhood)
Abdüllatif Mosque ‘in Cumhuriyet Bazaar
Zeynelabidin Mosque (in Nusaybin)
Koçhisar Mosque (in Kızıltepe)
Şehidiye Medresse and Mosque (Mardin)
Selsel Mosque (In Teker Neighborhood)
Necmettin Gazi Mosque (Necmettin Neighborhood)
Kasım Tuğmaner Mosque (on the 1st Avenue)
Reyhaniye Mosque (in Hasan Ayyar Bazaar)
Hamidiye Mosque (on the 1st Avenue)
Süleymanpaşa Mosque (in Şehidiye Neighborhood)
Secaattin and Mehmet Mosque (on Yeniyol at the center)
Hamza-i Kebir Mosque (in Savurkapı Neighborhood)
Şeyh Abdülaziz Mosque (to the west of Cumhuriyet Bazaar)
Melik Eminettin el Emin Mosque (in Eminettin Neighborhood)
Sıtra Zaviye Mosque (Gül Neighborhood)
Şeyh Salih Mosque (on Yeniyol at the center)
Mahmut Türki Mosque (in Diyarbakır Neighborhood)
Sarı Mosque (Necmettin or Maristan)
Şeyh Çabuk Mosque (in Çabuk Neighborhood)
Nizamettin Begaz Mosque (in Diyarbakır Kapı Neighborhood)
Kale Mosque (in Mardin Fortress)
Dinari Mosque (in Jeweler’s Bazaar)
Grand Mosque (Ulu Camii in Midyat)

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Mardin Churches:

Meryemana (Virgin Mary) Church (Mardin)
Mor Yusuf (Surp Hovsep) Church (Mardin)
Mor Behnam Church (Mardin)
Deyrü’zzafaran Monastery (Mardin)
Hah Virgin Mary Church (Midyat)
Mor Gabriyel Monastery (Midyat)
Mor Yakup Monastery (Nusaybin)
Mor Dimet Monastery
Mor Mihail Church (Center-Big Church)
Mor Semune Church (Mardin)
Mor Dimet Monastery
Mor Petrus and Pavlus Church (Mardin)
Surp Kevork Church (Derik)
Virgin Mary Protestant Church (Midyat)
Red (Surp Kevork) Church (Mardin)
Mor Cercis Church (Eskikale- Mardin)
Mor Efraim Monastery (Mardin)
Mor Abraham Church (Midyat)

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Mardin is an ancient city, but little is known of the pre-Roman times. It certainly existed in Assyrian times.
Under the Romans it was called Marida, a fortress was built on the hill overlooking the city. From the city to the south on the Syrian plain.

Much of the city clings to the rise of rock, although it seems to be spreading into the surrounding hills as well.

The center has a wonderful streets up and down the slopes or level remaining parallel to one of the main streets.

They have beautiful homes that line them. There is a small but pleasant covered bazaar and the city has some beautiful mosques and a number medreses or Koranic schools, many with precious stones As usual, It’s ll introduce the photos now, and add some comments in the coming days .

I also have slides from a previous visit with a trip to the monastery of Mars Hanania, 6 km from the city, a Syrian Orthodox monastery that now houses an orphanage.

When I find time to scan and edit them, they will be posted here too.

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Miletus – Milet – Miletos, Μίλητος, Turkey

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Miletus is famous for its gigantic Hellenistic theater, rebuilt by the Romans and perhaps the structure of theater’s most impressive Anatolia.

Located at the southern edge of the floodplain of the river Meander, 22 km (14 miles) south of Priene, Miletus was an important Ionian city for 1400 years, from about 700 BC to 700 AD.

It is at the heart of the three old sites (Priene, Miletus and Didyma) you can visit on a day of Selcuk (Ephesus) or Kusadasi.

The city has a solid history. Thales Miletus (sixth to fifth century BC), one of the seven wise men of Greece, has been called “the founder of the science,” especially with a large proportion of the field of geometry and astronomy.

 It was in Miletus that Paul met the elders of the church of Ephesus (Ephesians), before his last trip to Rome. Isidore of Miletus was one of two men who have transformed the architectural design of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Although the settlement was known in Hittite era, it was the Ionian Hippodamus of Miletus who gave his plan of road network, the revolutionary feature of urban planning, which was copied from near Priene, and then all the new Roman city.

Made of rich maritime trade and its colonies, Miletus flourished through the Byzantine and Seljuk period, but eventually died when the door fully with the flood of the river meander.

Today is a meander flood of cotton fields, it is difficult to imagine a ship docked in front of the theater, where parking and the restaurant is now, but the way it was.

Today, you can flood the whole Priene is a direct way to fill irrigation canals and a lot of meandering river shrunken (Buyuk Menderes Nehra) to reach the ruins of Miletus. If you park in the parking lot, because it insists that you pay YTL1 and allow you to pay YTL2 theater, and it pays to use the toilet YTL0.75.

I can suggest how to get around the theater: a walk on the left (north) side of the theater, writing a great portal (the photo above), and up the stairs inside. You can see how the theater is built, and how the amount of people moving up to 15,000 spectators, it can be sheltered from the scorching sun and the wind cools down the stairwell before you raised, gasping and blinking on the upper levels of the theater.

A small fortress in ruins is at the top of the theater, flying the Turkish flag. You can climb the mast in midsummer amid the magnificent thistles 2 meters. The view from the top is excellent, showing the theater itself, the flood plain, and other remains of ancient Miletus, including North and South Agora and the remains of city walls, bouleuterion, Baths of Faustina The stadium and other structures, all now very ruined.

A caravanserai restored theater in southern Turkey, built with shops, but are not usually open. Beyond this, the south, affecting Ilyas Bey Mosque (1404), the domed building and storks nesting on top of IT is currently closed for renovation.

Miletus has a small museum in the south the road to the village of Balat and Didymus Akköy City. Continue south along this road 4.5 km (3 miles) Akköy, then 14 km (9 miles) and Didymus Yenihisar. Further south, Altinkum Beach.

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