
Authentic Mardin Mountains
by Tuğba Bozdoğan, İzmir, Türkiye
Mardin is a city and multiple (former/titular) bishopric in southeastern Turkey.The city is located on the slope of a hill looking down south to the Mesopotamian plains. The capital of Mardin Province, it is known for the Artuqid architecture of its old city, and for its strategic location on a rocky hill near the Tigris River that rises steeply over the flat plains. territory of Mardin and Karaca Dağ was known as Izalla in the Late Bronze Age , and originally part of a Hurrian kingdom.
Taken on 14
October
2017
Submitted on 13 February 2019
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- Asia (930)
- Western Asia (266)
- Turkey (51)
- Exact location (40.9232 E, 37.2864 N)
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cloud, sky, nature, field, hill, country, outdoors, comulus
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