Midyat (Turkey) - Typical House
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(EN) After a long journey in a too full minibus I reached Midyat, one of the main attractions of the region together with Mardin and Hasankeyf. Unlike in other Turkish cities, there were no wooden buildings in the historic old town, instead, stone was used for building. Thanks to that, most of the historical architecture substance is preserved till today. Modernization still hasn’t arrived here, even some farmers live together with their animals in the historical buildings. The façade of the depicted building is typical for the region with its filigran details, which are common also in Mardin. Especially the minarets are attractive, most of them actually being church towers, since Midyat was until recently a mainly Aramaic and Christian town.
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Wow! Where is this? Certainly Moslem
influenced design...
Posted 6 months ago.
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@ Uberdoog: It's in Midyat, South-East
Anatolia, an old Aramaic town. As far as I
know, this architecture style is found only
in Midyat and its neighbouring city Mardin,
it's very typical for that region. I'll
translate the German explanation above
later...
Posted 6 months ago.
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Thank you, D! (Jesus of Nazareth spoke
Aramaic. You can't get more Christian than
that!)
Posted 6 months ago.
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