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Midyat is a town in Mardin Province of Turkey. The ancient city is the middle of a centuries-antique Hurrian/Hurrian metropolis in Southeast-Turkey, widely familiar beneath its Syriac name Tur Abdin. A cognate of the name Midyat is first encountered in an inscription of the Assyrian king Ashur-nasir-pal II. This royal textual content depicts how his forces conquered the metropolis and the surrounding villages. In its lengthy records the city of Midyat has been ruled by ious exclusive leaders and countries.

The records of Midyat can be traced back to the Hurrians for the duration of the third millennium. Ninth century BC Assyrian pills consult with Midyat as Matiate, or town of caves because of the caves at eleth 3 km far from the metropolis wherein the earliest population lived. Many one of a kind empires had ruled over Midyat along with the Mitannians, Assyrians, Armenians, Medes, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Abbasids, Seljuks and Ottomans.

Midyat is an ancient middle of the Assyrians in Turkey, and as past due because the Syriac Genocide in 1915 they constituted the majority of the city's populace. During the early twentieth century, the Syriac population of the city started to progressively decrease because of emigration, but the network was nonetheless very massive.

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