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Nusaybin
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Nusaybin
Total population
113,728
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Overview
Nusaybin is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,079 km2, and its population is 115,586 (2022). The city is populated by Kurds of different tribal affiliation.
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History
First mentioned in 901 BCE, Naṣibīna was an Aramean kingdom captured by the Assyrian king Adad-Nirari II in 896. By 852 BCE, Naṣibīna had been fully annexed to the Neo-Assyrian Empire and appeared in the Assyrian Eponym List as the seat of an Assyrian provincial governor named Shamash-Abua. It was under Babylonian control until 539 BCE, when it fell to the Achaemenid Persians, and remained so until taken by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE. The Seleucids re-founded the city as Antiochia Mygdonia (), mentioned for the first time in Polybius' description of the march of Antiochus III the Great against Molon (Polybius, V, 51). The Greek historian Plutarch suggested that the city was populated by descendants of Spartans. Around the 1st century CE, Nisibis () was the home of Judah ben Bethera, who founded a famous yeshiva there. In 67 BCE, during Rome's first war with Armenia, the Roman general Lucullus took Nisibis () from the brother of Tigranes. Like many other cities in the marches where Roman and Parthian powers confronted one another, Nisibis was often taken and retaken. In 115 CE, it was captured by the Roman Emperor Trajan, for which he gained the name of Parthicus, then lost to and regained from the Jews during the Diaspora Revolt. After the Romans again lost the city in 194, it was once more conquered by Septimius Severus, who made it his headquarters and re-established a colony there. The last battle between Rome and Parthia was fought in the vicinity of the city in 217. With the fresh energy of the new Sassanid dynasty, Shapur I conquered Nisibis, was driven out, and returned in the 260s. In 298, by a treaty with Narseh, the province of Nisibis was acquired by the Roman Empire. During the Roman–Persian Wars (337–363 CE) Nisibis was unsuccessfully besieged…
Geography
Nusaybin is on the north side of the Syria-Turkey border, which divides it from the city of Qamishli. The Jaghjagh River flows through both cities. The Nusaybin side of the border has a minefield, with a total of some 600,000 landmines having been set by the Turkish Armed Forces since the 1950s. Located to the east is Mount Judi, which people (including Muslims) consider to be the place where the ark of Nuh or Noah (who is regarded as a Nabi or Prophet in Abrahamic religions) came to rest. There are 84 neighbourhoods in Nusaybin District. Fifteen of these (8 Mart, Abdulkadirpaşa, Barış, Devrim, Dicle, Fırat, Gırnavas, İpekyolu, Kışla, Mor-Yakup, Selahattin Eyyübi, Yenişehir, Yenituran and Zeynelabidin) form the central town (merkez) of Nusaybin. * 8. Mart * Abdulkadirpaşa * Acıkköy () * Açıkyol () * Akağıl () * Akarsu () * Akçatarla () * Bahçebaşı () * Bakacık () * Balaban () * Barış * Beylik () * Büyükkardeş () * Çağlar () * Çalıköy () * Çatalözü () * Çiğdem () * Çilesiz () * Çölova () * Dağiçi () * Dallıağaç () * Değirmencik () * Demirtepe () * Devrim * Dibek () * Dicle * Dirim () * Doğanlı () * Doğuş () * Durakbaşı () * Duruca () * Düzce () * Eskihisar () * Eskimağara () * Eskiyol () * Fırat * Girmeli () * Gırnavas * Görentepe () * Günebakan () * Güneli () * Günyurdu (), () * Gürün () * Güvenli () * Hasantepe () * Heybeyi () * İkiztepe () * Ilkadım () * İpekyolu * Kalecik () * Kaleli () * Kantar () * Karacaköy () * Kayadibi () * Kışla * Kocadağ () * Küçükkardeş () * Kuruköy () * Kuyular () * Mor-Yakup * Nergizli () * Odabaşı (), ) * Pazarköy () * Selahattin Eyyübi * Sınırtepe () * Söğütlü () * Taşköy () * Tekağaç () * Tepealtı () * Tepeören () * Tepeüstü () * Turgutköy () * Üçköy () * Üçyol () * Yandere () * Yavruköy () * Yazyurdu () * Yenişehir * Yenituran *…
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Nearby places in Mardin
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- • Open Library
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