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Mardin is a city in southeastern Turkey . The capital of Mardin Province , it is known for its Arab -style architecture, and for its strategic location on a rocky mountain overlooking the plains of northern Syria . Kurds form the majority of the population {Link without Title} Encyclopaedia of Islam {Link without Title} . Early settlers in Mardin were Syriac Orthodox Christian s, arriving in the third century. It remained a heavily Christian area during occupations by Muslim Arab s between the seventh and twelfth centuries, and even during its use as a capital by the Artukid Turcoman tribe between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. This tribe fell to the Mongols in 1394, but the Mongols never governed the area closely. Mardin became a part of the Ottoman Empire under Selim I in 1517, and remained a part of the Empire until its fall during World War I . The city was the site of a Kurdish rebellion in 1832. Many of Mardin's Christian inhabitants, descended from the early settlers, were killed or forced to leave during the Turkish War Of Independence / Assyrian Genocide , and Christians now form a tiny minority in the city. SEE ALSO List Of Assyrian Settlements REFERENCE
also known as Deyrulzafarân, a Syriac Orthodox monastery a few kilometers outside Mardin. Formerly the seat of the patriarch of Antioch.]] EXTERNAL LINKS
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