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Mardin Province, Kurdish: Mêrdîn (parêzgeh) is a province of Turkey with a population of 744,606. The capital of the Mardin Province is Mardin (Classical Syriac: ܡܶܪܕܺܝܢ "Mardin" in related Semitic language Arabic: ماردين, Mardīn). The population majority is Kurdish, with Arab and Assyrian minorities.
Mardin comes from the Syriac word (ܡܪܕܐ) and means "fortresses".
The local Assyrians/Syriacs, while very reduced due to the massacres of the Assyrian Genocide, hold on to two of the oldest monasteries in the world,[citation needed] Dayro d-Mor Hananyo (Turkish Deyrülzafaran, English Saffron Monastery) and Deyrulumur Monastery. The Christian community is concentrated on the Tur Abdin plateau and in the town of Midyat, with a smaller community (approximately 100) in the provincial capital.
Politically, the area in the early 2000s has witnessed competition between the governing Justice and Development Party and the mainly Kurdish-based Democratic People's Party, later revamped as Peace and Democracy Party.
Unemployment and poverty are serious problems, and there has been considerable out migration to western and southern Turkey, although the reduction in political violence (mainly related to the PKK-led insurgency), coupled with infrastructure improvements such as a new civil airport at the provincial capital and improvements to the Ankara-Baghdad highway are helping ameliorate matters.
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Mardin comes from the Syriac word (ܡܪܕܐ) and means "fortresses".
The local Assyrians/Syriacs, while very reduced due to the massacres of the Assyrian Genocide, hold on to two of the oldest monasteries in the world,[citation needed] Dayro d-Mor Hananyo (Turkish Deyrülzafaran, English Saffron Monastery) and Deyrulumur Monastery. The Christian community is concentrated on the Tur Abdin plateau and in the town of Midyat, with a smaller community (approximately 100) in the provincial capital.
Politically, the area in the early 2000s has witnessed competition between the governing Justice and Development Party and the mainly Kurdish-based Democratic People's Party, later revamped as Peace and Democracy Party.
Unemployment and poverty are serious problems, and there has been considerable out migration to western and southern Turkey, although the reduction in political violence (mainly related to the PKK-led insurgency), coupled with infrastructure improvements such as a new civil airport at the provincial capital and improvements to the Ankara-Baghdad highway are helping ameliorate matters.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardin_Province
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°19'19"N 40°53'47"E
- Northern Borders Region 638 km
- Riyadh Province 1136 km
- Kerman Province 1369 km
- Balochistan Province 1914 km
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- Mahajanga Province 5706 km
- Toliara Province 6183 km
- East Kalimantan 8204 km
- Saskatchewan 8879 km
- Papua 10453 km
- Mor Hananyo Monastery (Deyrulzafarân) 10 km
- Kasır 14 km
- Tell 15 km
- waremirto 16 km
- Ziyaret 16 km
- Dara (Mesopotamia) 16 km
- Dara 17 km
- berzirave 17 km
- Sinna 19 km
- Tur Abdin 46 km
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