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Encyclopaedia of the Orient - Mardin
Mardin is an
Aramaic word (
ܡܶܪܕܺܝܢ) and means "fortresses".
The earliest settlers in Mardin were
Syriac Orthodox Christian s, arriving in the 3rd century AD. In fact, 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 . Another important church, Kırklar 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. Mardin remained a heavily Christian area during its control by
Muslim Arab s between the seventh and twelfth centuries, and even during its use as a capital by the
Artukid Turkish dynasty which ruled Eastern
Anatolia and Northern
Mesopotamia between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. The 12th century Sitti Radviyye Madrasa, the oldest of its kind in
Anatolia , dates from this period. The lands of the Artukid dynasty fell to the
Mongols 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 Kasımiye Madrasa was built by Sultan Kasım, son of the Akkoyunlu Sultan Cihangir, between
1457 and
1502 .
Mardin province was added to the
Ottoman Empire under
Selim I in
1517 , and has remained a part of
Turkey ever since. In
1832 the city was the site of a Kurdish rebellion. Many of Mardin's Christian inhabitants, descended from the early settlers, were killed or forced to leave during the
Syriac Genocide , and Christians now form a tiny minority in the city.
- Mardin is the one of the two main settings in the popular Turkish television series Sıla .
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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Deyrülzafarân_Monastery" class="copylinks">Deyrülzafarân Monastery , a Syriac Orthodox monastery a few kilometers outside Mardin Formerly the seat of the Patriarchate of Antioch
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