Malatya Metropolitan Municipality

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Malatya (Armenian: Մալաթիա Malat'ya; Greek: Μαλάτεια Malateia; Kurdish: Meletî; Classical Syriac: ܡܠܝܛܝܢܐ Malīṭīná; Ottoman Turkish: مالاتيا) is a city in the region of Eastern Anatolia in Turkey and the capital of its eponymous province.
The cty has a population of 426,381, mostly turkish people.

The city has been a human settlement for thousands of years. The Assyrians called the city Meliddu.[4] Strabo says that the city was known "to the ancients" as Melitene (Greek Μελιτηνή), a name adopted also by the Romans following Roman expansion into the east. According to Strabo the inhabitants of Melitene shared at that time with the nearby Cappadocians and Cataonians the same language and culture. The site of ancient Melitene lies a few kilometres from the modern city in what is now the village of Arslantepe and near the dependant district center of Battalgazi (Byzantine to Ottoman Empire). Present-day Battalgazi was the location of the city of Malatya until the 19th century, when a gradual move of the city to the present third location began. Battalgazi's official name was Eskimalatya (Old Malatya); until recently, it was a name used locally.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malatya
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Coordinates:   38°20'14"N   38°17'45"E

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  • çok güzel bi şehir
  • ben bu ilde yaşıyorum şehrimi çok seviorum
  • keşke 2. ordu ve ünivertsite olmasaydı malatyanın maneviyatını kirlettiler
  • ben malatyalı olarak ve malatyada yaşayarak gurur duyuyorum.
  • Polygon!
  • The historical territory of Armenia
  • Under Roman rule, Melitene was the base camp of Legio XII Fulminata. It was a major center in Lesser Armenia (P'ok'r Hayk'), remaining so until the end of the fourth century A.D. Emperor Theodosius I divided the region into two provinces: First Armenia (Hayk'), with its capital at Sivas; and Second Armenia, with its capital at Melitene.Malatya's population hovered around 40,000, of which half (20,000) were Armenian.Of the five churches in the city, three belonged to the Armenians. They were chiefly involved in commerce, silkworm cultivation and agriculture. In the spring of 1915, the Armenians of the town were rounded up by Ottoman authorities and sent to the deserts of Syria. Those who survived settled in a number of different countries.
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