Places to visit in Mardin
5 places from Mardin province are on the map: Mardin, Midyat, Dara, Savur, and Mor Gabriel. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Mardin
In how many languages does a city dream? Walking Mardin’s narrow streets, you can’t help asking; for in the same street an Arabic greeting, a Kurdish song, a Syriac prayer and a Turkish…
See on the map →Midyat
Have you ever imagined drawing silver out as fine as a silk thread and working it like lace? In Midyat this is no dream but a centuries-old craft. In this art called telkâri, or filigree…
See on the map →Dara
What does an emperor think about when he decides to build a city on his frontier? The enemy, water, or how history will remember him? When the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I had Dara built…
See on the map →Savur
Some towns introduce themselves as the little sibling of a big city; that is why Savur is called “Little Mardin”. But once you’ve seen Savur, you may feel the comparison doesn’t quite do it…
See on the map →Mor Gabriel
Tur Abdin means “the mountain of the servants of God” in Syriac. When a land is given such a name, the life lived there is expected to carry the weight of that name too… So how does a…
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