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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  is the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The city distinctly Middle Eastern flavour is mainly in the jumble of narrow streets of the 16th century bazaar.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  is the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The city distinctly Middle Eastern flavour is mainly in the jumble of narrow streets of the 16th century bazaar.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  is the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The city distinctly Middle Eastern flavour is mainly in the jumble of narrow streets of the 16th century bazaar. the old bedensten of Gumruk Hani, the customs dept, now is a courtyard full oof merchants.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  is the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The city distinctly Middle Eastern flavour is mainly in the jumble of narrow streets of the 16th century bazaar. the old bedensten of Gumruk Hani, the customs dept, now is a courtyard full oof merchants.
    em2711557.jpg
  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  is the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The city distinctly Middle Eastern flavour is mainly in the jumble of narrow streets of the 16th century bazaar.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  is the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The city distinctly Middle Eastern flavour is mainly in the jumble of narrow streets of the 16th century bazaar.
    em2711571.jpg
  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  is the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The city distinctly Middle Eastern flavour is mainly in the jumble of narrow streets of the 16th century bazaar.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The picturesque Golbasi, a symbolic recreation of a legend about Abraham, also a grat Islamic prophet. When was living in the city Abraham destroyed pagan gods, offending the local Assyrian king Nimrod, that decidet to kill the prophet on a funeral pyre. But God turned the fire into water and the burning coals into fish. So now 2  polls of water are filled with sacred carps.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The picturesque Golbasi, a symbolic recreation of a legend about Abraham, also a grat Islamic prophet. When was living in the city Abraham destroyed pagan gods, offending the local Assyrian king Nimrod, that decidet to kill the prophet on a funeral pyre. But God turned the fire into water and the burning coals into fish. So now 2  polls of water are filled with sacred carps.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The picturesque Golbasi, a symbolic recreation of a legend about Abraham, also a grat Islamic prophet. When was living in the city Abraham destroyed pagan gods, offending the local Assyrian king Nimrod, that decidet to kill the prophet on a funeral pyre. But God turned the fire into water and the burning coals into fish. So now 2  polls of water are filled with sacred carps.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The picturesque Golbasi, a symbolic recreation of a legend about Abraham, also a grat Islamic prophet. When was living in the city Abraham destroyed pagan gods, offending the local Assyrian king Nimrod, that decidet to kill the prophet on a funeral pyre. But God turned the fire into water and the burning coals into fish. So now 2  polls of water are filled with sacred carps.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The picturesque Golbasi, a symbolic recreation of a legend about Abraham, also a grat Islamic prophet. When was living in the city Abraham destroyed pagan gods, offending the local Assyrian king Nimrod, that decidet to kill the prophet on a funeral pyre. But God turned the fire into water and the burning coals into fish. So now 2  polls of water are filled with sacred carps.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire. Friday prayer at Rizvaniye Vafki Camii (mosque), replacing an earlier Byzantine church, houses the site where Abraham fell to the ground.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.
    em2711585.jpg
  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire. The Ulu Cami (mosque) dates from 1170-1175 A.D. Old graveyard.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire. The Ulu Cami (mosque) dates from 1170-1175 A.D.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire. Old houses.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  is the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The city distinctly Middle Eastern flavour is mainly in the jumble of narrow streets of the 16th century bazaar.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  is the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The city distinctly Middle Eastern flavour is mainly in the jumble of narrow streets of the 16th century bazaar. Guns shop.
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  • Harran, mentioned in the Bible because Abraham lived here, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited spots on the earth. The traditional beehive houses.
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  • Harran, mentioned in the Bible because Abraham lived here, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited spots on the earth. The traditional beehive houses.
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  • Harran, mentioned in the Bible because Abraham lived here, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited spots on the earth. The ancient Aleppo Gate, near here stood the first Islamic university.
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  • Harran, mentioned in the Bible because Abraham lived here, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited spots on the earth. The traditional beehive houses.
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  • Landscape between Sanliurfa and Mardin.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. A traditional coffee house inside the bazaar. Mardin still has a small Chiristian minority.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. The rambling bazaar. Mardin still has a small Chiristian minority.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. A traditional coffee house. Mardin still has a small Chiristian minority.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. A traditional coffee house inside the bazaar.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. The Ulu Cami mosque, a 12th century Selyuk structure.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. Once the town was home to a large Syrian Christian community. The Citadel.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. Once the town was home to a large Syrian Christian community.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. Once the town was home to a large Syrian Christian community.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. Once the town was home to a large Syrian Christian community.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. Girls of a madrasa, Coranic school.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. The rambling bazaar.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. The spices bazaar.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. The rambling bazaar.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. The rambling bazaar.
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  • Mardin. Syriac  monastery of Deyrul Zafaran, "Saffron  monastery" because the local tradition tought  was built with saffron and lime. Once was the seat of the Syriac patriarch.
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  • Mardin. Syriac  monastery of Deyrul Zafaran, "Saffron  monastery" because the local tradition tought  was built with saffron and lime. Once was the seat of the Syriac patriarch.
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  • Mardin. Syriac  monastery of Deyrul Zafaran, "Saffron  monastery" because the local tradition tought  was built with saffron and lime. Once was the seat of the Syriac patriarch. The Holy Bible written in Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus Christ.
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  • Mardin. Syriac  monastery of Deyrul Zafaran, "Saffron  monastery" because the local tradition tought  was built with saffron and lime. Once was the seat of the Syriac patriarch.
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  • Mardin. Syriac  monastery of Deyrul Zafaran, "Saffron  monastery" because the local tradition tought  was built with saffron and lime. Once was the seat of the Syriac patriarch. On this cave under the church was a very old sanctuary where Sun faithfuls waited the sunrise.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. Once the town was home to a large Syrian Christian community. The city has still a strong police and military presence.
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  • Antakia (Hatay), the ancient Antiochy, the bazaar. Antakya was Arabic in culture and language, and many people speaks Arabic as a first language.
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  • Antakia (Hatay), the ancient Antiochy, the bazaar. Antakya was Arabic in culture and language, and many people speaks Arabic as a first language.
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  • Antakia (Hatay), the ancient Antiochy, the bazaar. Antakya was Arabic in culture and language, and many people speaks Arabic as a first language.
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  • Antakia (Hatay), the ancient Antiochy, was Arabic in culture and language, and many people speaks Arabic as a first language. The Cave-Church of St Peter where Saints Peter and Paul preached and where for the first time the believers of the new religion were named Christians.
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  • Antakia (Hatay), the ancient Antiochy, the bazaar. Antakya was Arabic in culture and language, and many people speaks Arabic as a first language.
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  • Antakia (Hatay), the ancient Antiochy, the bazaar. Antakya was Arabic in culture and language, and many people speaks Arabic as a first language.
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  • Antakya, St Simeon monastery (6th century A.D.) on a mountain south of the city contains the ruins of 3 churches.
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  • Antakya, St Simeon monastery (6th century A.D.) on a mountain south of the city contains the ruins of 3 churches. The ruin of the pillar where pilgrims listen to St Simeon preaching against the iniquities of Antioch.
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  • Antakya, St Simeon monastery (6th century A.D.) on a mountain south of the city contains the ruins of 3 churches.
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  • Antakia (Antiochia): la splendida collezione di mosaici romano-bizantini del Museo Archeologico. (Antiochia), il bazaar.
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  • Antakia (Hatay), Archaeology Museum. The fine collection of Roman-Byzantine mosaics, one of the most important of the world. Stories of hunting and fishing, from mythology.
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  • Antakia (Hatay), Archaeology Museum. The fine collection of Roman-Byzantine mosaics, one of the most important of the world. Stories of hunting and fishing, from mythology.
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  • Antakia (Hatay), Archaeology Museum. The fine collection of Roman-Byzantine mosaics, one of the most important of the world. Stories of hunting and fishing, from mythology.
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  • Yilinkale, the Snake Castle, was a important fortress of the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia in the 12th and 13th century.
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  • Gaziantep, a modern city of the South-East, the impressive Citadel constructed by the Romans and restored by emperor Justinian in the 6th century A.D.
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  • Gaziantep, a modern city of the South-East, the bazaar.
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  • Hasankeyf, a old coloured village clinging to the rocks of a gorge above the Tigris Tiver. A sort of small troglodyte Cappadocia slated to vanish beneath the waters of a dam, part of the GAP (Southeast Anatolia Project) that will flood the region, drawning Hasankeyf and many archeological trasures. El-Rizk Cami mosque (1409 A.D.) with a slender minaret similar to those in Mardin.
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  • Hasankeyf, a old coloured village clinging to the rocks of a gorge above the Tigris Tiver. A sort of small troglodyte Cappadocia slated to vanish beneath the waters of a dam, part of the GAP (Southeast Anatolia Project) that will flood the region, drawning Hasankeyf and many archeological trasures. A tower of the castle.
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  • Hasankeyf, a old coloured village clinging to the rocks of a gorge above the Tigris Tiver. A sort of small troglodyte Cappadocia slated to vanish beneath the waters of a dam, part of the GAP (Southeast Anatolia Project) that will flood the region, drawning Hasankeyf and many archeological trasures.
    em2711775.jpg
  • Hasankeyf, a old coloured village clinging to the rocks of a gorge above the Tigris Tiver. A sort of small troglodyte Cappadocia slated to vanish beneath the waters of a dam, part of the GAP (Southeast Anatolia Project) that will flood the region, drawning Hasankeyf and many archeological trasures.
    em2711777.jpg
  • Hasankeyf, a old coloured village clinging to the rocks of a gorge above the Tigris Tiver. A sort of small troglodyte Cappadocia slated to vanish beneath the waters of a dam, part of the GAP (Southeast Anatolia Project) that will flood the region, drawning Hasankeyf and many archeological trasures.
    em2711779.jpg
  • Hasankeyf, a old coloured village clinging to the rocks of a gorge above the Tigris Tiver. A sort of small troglodyte Cappadocia slated to vanish beneath the waters of a dam, part of the GAP (Southeast Anatolia Project) that will flood the region, drawning Hasankeyf and many archeological trasures. The çardaks, leafy-roofed shelters set up along the Euphrates river, restaurants standing in the water, so you can eat with the feet on the cold waters of the river.
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  • Hasankeyf, a old coloured village clinging to the rocks of a gorge above the Tigris Tiver. A sort of small troglodyte Cappadocia slated to vanish beneath the waters of a dam, part of the GAP (Southeast Anatolia Project) that will flood the region, drawning Hasankeyf and many archeological trasures. The çardaks, leafy-roofed shelters set up along the Euphrates river, restaurants standing in the water, so you can eat with the feet on the cold waters of the river.
    em2711789.jpg
  • Hasankeyf, a old coloured village clinging to the rocks of a gorge above the Tigris Tiver. A sort of small troglodyte Cappadocia slated to vanish beneath the waters of a dam, part of the GAP (Southeast Anatolia Project) that will flood the region, drawning Hasankeyf and many archeological trasures. The çardaks, leafy-roofed shelters set up along the Euphrates river, restaurants standing in the water, so you can eat with the feet on the cold waters of the river.
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  • Midyat, Mor Gabriel syriac monastery, founded by St Samuel and St Simeon (397 A.C. ). Till today is the seat of Tur Abdin syriac bishops.
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  • Midyat, Mor Gabriel syriac monastery, founded by St Samuel and St Simeon (397 A.C. ). Till today is the seat of Tur Abdin syriac bishops.
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  • Midyat, Mar Gabriel syriac monastery, founded by St Samuel and St Simeon (397 A.C. ). Till today is the seat of Tur Abdin syriac bishops. Workers rebuilding the old buidings.
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  • Midyat, Mar Gabriel syriac monastery, founded by St Samuel and St Simeon (397 A.C. ). Till today is the seat of Tur Abdin syriac bishops.
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  • Ferry near Nemrut Dagi mountain on the ATaturk Dam lake.
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  • Landscape between Sanliurfa and Mardin.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire. Friday prayer at Rizvaniye Vafki Camii (mosque), replacing an earlier Byzantine church, houses the site where Abraham fell to the ground.
    em2711824.jpg
  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The picturesque Golbasi, a symbolic recreation of a legend about Abraham, also a grat Islamic prophet. When was living in the city Abraham destroyed pagan gods, offending the local Assyrian king Nimrod, that decidet to kill the prophet on a funeral pyre. But God turned the fire into water and the burning coals into fish. So now 2  polls of water are filled with sacred carps.
    em2711828.jpg
  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The picturesque Golbasi, a symbolic recreation of a legend about Abraham, also a grat Islamic prophet. When was living in the city Abraham destroyed pagan gods, offending the local Assyrian king Nimrod, that decidet to kill the prophet on a funeral pyre. But God turned the fire into water and the burning coals into fish. So now 2  polls of water are filled with sacred carps.
    em2711829.jpg
  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. The rambling bazaar.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. Once the town was home to a large Syrian Christian community.
    em2713784.jpg
  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. The rambling bazaar.
    em2713787.jpg
  • Mardin. Syriac  monastery of Deyrul Zafaran, "Saffron  monastery" because the local tradition tought  was built with saffron and lime. Once was the seat of the Syriac patriarch.
    em2713791.jpg
  • Mardin. Syriac  monastery of Deyrul Zafaran, "Saffron  monastery" because the local tradition tought  was built with saffron and lime. Once was the seat of the Syriac patriarch.
    em2713793.jpg
  • Mardin. Syriac  monastery of Deyrul Zafaran, "Saffron  monastery" because the local tradition tought  was built with saffron and lime. Once was the seat of the Syriac patriarch.
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  • Mardin. Syriac  monastery of Deyrul Zafaran, "Saffron  monastery" because the local tradition tought  was built with saffron and lime. Once was the seat of the Syriac patriarch.
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