Mardin is really a town in southeastern Turkey. Main city from the province of Mardin, is well known Arab architecture, and its location within the Rocky Mountain views of the flatlands of northern Syria. Most Orthodox churches and monasteries built in the Syrian town of ancient temples Assyrian-Babylonian, and are still active. Monasteries as Deyrülzafarân monastery dating back 4000 years. Mardin is likely Maride Marida and the Greeks and Romans. Another important church, Kirklar Kilisesi (Church from the Martyrs 40), originally built-in the name of Benham and Saro, the two sons from the Assyrian ruler who executed them simply because they decided to become a Christian, going back to 569 AD. As well as during the use of capital Artukid Turkish empire which ruled Eastern Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia between the twelfth and 14th centuries. 12. Sitti Madras Radviyye century, the oldest of its kind in Anatolia for the period.