Mardin Mêrdîn

Overview

About Mardin

Mardin, an old city overlooking the Mesopotamian plain, sits within the broader region that once held a substantial Yazidi population across its surrounding districts.

As with the rest of Turkey's Yazidi heartland, the community here largely emigrated, leaving a heritage maintained mainly from abroad.

This is a community place rather than a primarily religious one. Population and return figures move and are always given with a source and a date rather than stated as fixed.

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