Mardin (province)
Mardin | |
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Province number: | 47 |
Counties | |
Basic data | |
Coordinates: | 37 ° 22 ′ N , 40 ° 55 ′ E |
Provincial capital: | Mardin |
Region: | Southeast Anatolia |
Surface: | 8,891 km² |
Population: | 796,237 (2016) |
Population density: | 89.56 inhabitants / km² |
Political | |
Governor: | Mustafa Yaman |
Seats in Parliament: | 6th |
Structural | |
Telephone code: | 0482 |
Features : | 47 |
Website | |
www.mardin.gov.tr (Turkish) |
Mardin ( Arabic ماردين, DMG Mārdīn , Aramaic ܡܪܕܝܢ Merdin , Kurdish Mêrdîn ) is a province in southern Turkey on the border with Syria . The name Mardin comes from the Syrian Merde and roughly means castle . The capital is the city of the same name, Mardin . The Mardin Province is bordered by the Şanlıurfa Province to the west, the Diyarbakır and Batman provinces to the north, and the Şırnak and Siirt provinces to the east .
With 82,134 inhabitants (as of 2014), the capital is the largest city in the province, which has 796,237 inhabitants on 8,891 km² (as of 2016). The province forms a transition between the mountainous Anatolia and the plains of Mesopotamia and has only a few mountains, some of which are over 1000 m high.
population
Kurds , Arabs , Turks and Arameans / Assyrians live in Mardin .
Most of the originating from Mardin Yezidis (approximately 40,000) have emigrated. Of the once tens of thousands of Aramaeans, a few hundred still live in Mardin today. There is also a population called Mhallami that lives here .
politics
In 1997 the governor issued a prohibition against the monasteries Mor Gabriel and Zafaran to accommodate foreign guests and to give Aramaic language lessons and religious instruction . International protests have meanwhile resulted in the ban on accommodation being lifted. Native language lessons in Aramaic are still prohibited.
history
The area has always been the link between the Mesopotamian and Anatolian cultures and the settlement area of the Arabic-speaking ethnic group of the Mhallami .
tourism
In terms of tourism, this area is mainly known for the old town of Mardin and the Tur Abdin . Two of the oldest Christian monasteries (Dayro d'Mor Hananyo and Dayro d'Mor Gabriel ), Siltan-Sêxmus (approx. 20 km in the direction of Diyarbakır ) and Küferdel (ruins of an ancient city, approx. 15 km north of Mardin in the direction of Diyarbakır / Stewrê) are in this province. The name Mardin comes from the Aramaic word ܡܶܪܕܺܝܢ for “castles” and illustrates the location of the city very well. In addition, the name Mardin means "heroic" in Kurdish.
Counties
Mardin has been a big city (Büyükşehir belediyesi) since 2012. After an administrative reform in 2014, all districts are directly subordinate to the Lord Mayor of Mardin. The former mayors of the municipalities ( Belediye ) were downgraded to the rank of Muhtar . Therefore, the ten rural districts are also urban districts:
See also
Personalities
- Musa Anter , writer
- Cegerxwîn , writer
- Louis Cheikhô , orientalist, theologian and Jesuit
- Ekrem Dağ , football player
- Yousuf Karsh , photographer
- Flavianus Michael Malke , Syrian Catholic bishop and victim of the Assyrian genocide
- Ignatius Maloyan , Armenian Catholic Archbishop
- Elias Mellus , Chaldean Catholic Archbishop
- Orhan Miroğlu , politician and writer
- Aziz Sancar , Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Ahmet Türk , politician
Individual evidence
- ↑ Turkish Institute for Statistics , accessed December 24, 2017
- ^ Website of the province of Mardin
- ↑ International Society for Human Rights