Mardin
The auld ceety o Mardin
Location o Mardin athin Turkey.
Coordinates: 37°19′0″N 40°44′16″E  /  37.31667°N 40.73778°E  / 37.31667; 40.73778
Kintra	Turkey
Region	Sootheastren Anatolie
Province	Mardin
Govrenment
?  Mayor	Suleyman Yıldız
Area
? City	8806 km 2 (3,400 sq mi)
Elevation	1083 m (3,553 ft)
Population   (2009)
? Density	80/km 2 (200/sq mi)
?  Urban	82.444
Time zone	UTC+2 ( EET )
? Summer ( DST )	UTC+3 ( EEST )
Postal code	47x xx
Area code(s)	0482
Licence plate	47
Website	Mardinimiz.net

Mardin ( Ottoman Turkish : ?????? ‎, Mard?n , Kurdish : Merdin ‎, Clessical Syriac : ????? ‎) is a ceety in sootheastren Turkey . The caipital o Mardin Province , it is kent for the Artuqid airchitectur o its auld ceety, an for its strategic location on a rocky hill near the Tigris River that rises steeply ower the flat plains. ^[1]

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Mardin is twinned wi:

Ljubljana , Slovenie , syne 2003

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