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	Mardin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The capital of Mardin Province, it is known for its Arab-style architecture, and for its strategic location on a rocky mountain overlooking the plains of northern Syria.
		Mardin became a part of the Ottoman Empire under Selim I in 1517, and remained a part of the Empire until its fall during World War I.
		Many of Mardin's Christian inhabitants, descended from the early settlers, were killed or forced to leave during the Turkish War of Independence/Assyrian Genocide, and Christians now form a tiny minority in the city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mardin (235 words)

	Mardin - All About Turkey
		Mardin is on the rail and highway routes connecting Turkey to Syria and Iraq.
		Houses in Mardin, reflecting all features of a closed-in life style are surrounded by 4 meters high walls and isolated from the street.
		Mardin's administrative districts are Dargecit, Derik, Kiziltepe, Mazidagi, Midyat, Nusaybin, Omerli, Savur and Yesilli.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /mardin.htm (952 words)

	Mardin Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mardin Province is a province of Turkey with a population of 835,173 (2000)¹.
		The capital of the Mardin Province is Mardin.
		Unemployment and poverty are serious problems, and there has been considerable out migration to western and southern Turkey, although the reduction in political violence, coupled with infrastructure improvements such as a new civil airport at the provincial capital and improvements to the Ankara-Baghdad highway are helping ameliorate matters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mardin_Province (222 words)

	MARDIN
		Mardin used to be an important center of the Western Asia for both its strategic location and commercial richness.
		Dargeçit, Derik, Kızıltepe, Mazıdağı, Midyat, Nusaybin, Ömerli, Savur and Yeşilli are Mardin’s districts in the periphery.
		It is to the east of Mardin, on slopes overlooking the Mesopotamian Plain.
	www.gap.gov.tr /English/Ggbilgi/mardin.html (862 words)

	Mardin
		A residential Armenian archbishopric, a Chaldean bishopric, and a residential Syrian bishopric; moreover it is the headquarters of the Capuchin mission of Mardin and Amida.
		The patriarch ought to reside at Mardin, but for some years past he has preferred Beirut on account of facility of communication with Europe.
		The Chaldean diocese, which is limited to the town of Mardin, has 750 faithful, 4 native priests, 1 parish, and 3 stations.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/mardin.html (553 words)

	Mardin Hotels and Information for Mardin, Turkey
		Mardin is also situated in the area where the Southeastern Taurus Range meets the Arabian platform to the south.
		Mardin was formerly known as "Marde" by the Persians, "Mardia" by the Byzantine, "Maridin" by the Arabs and "Merde-Merdo-Merdi" by the Syriacs.
		Mardin Castle (tenth century A.D.), the Grand Mosque (twelfth century), the Latifiye Mosque (fourteenth century) and the Kasimiye Madrasah (fifteenth century), located in the city, are worth seeing, and so is the Sultan Isa Medrese, dating from 1385, with its magnificent carved portal.
	www.tour-turkey.com /mardin-hotels.htm (834 words)

	MusicWorld Feature: For Arif Mardin, The Song Remains the Same
		Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Mardin, a lover of American jazz, first came to the United States in 1958 after meeting jazz giants Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones.
		Mardin is also active in producing music for movies and television.
		Not one to rest on his laurels, Mardin is currently working on a project with vocalist Linda Elder, the star of Broadway's Jekyll and Hyde.
	www.bmi.com /musicworld/features/200005/amardin.asp (644 words)

	SingerUniverse Magazine - Arif Mardin article
		Mardin is renowned for producing many classic hit singles and albums, for artists in all genres.
		Mardin’s production credits are so vast, that it’s difficult to list his career highlights in a single article.
		Mardin: I just produced a song with Aretha Franklin, “A House Is Not A Home” (the Burt Bacharach/Hal David classic), for the Luther Vandross tribute album on J Records.
	www.singeruniverse.com /mardin.htm (1084 words)

	Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture - Mardin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The province of Mardin, is a poetic city of Southeast Anatolia Region reflecting the impression as if the time had stopped with its present architectural, ethnographic, archeological, historic and visual merits.
		The province of Mardin hosts mosques, mausoleums, churches, monasteries and similar religious creations parallel to the different religious beliefs all of which are representing both artistic and historic values.
		The province of Mardin is located along the historical Silk Road and there are 5 inns and caravansaries in the city.
	goturkey.kultur.gov.tr /destinasyon_en.asp?belgeno=9632&belgekod=9632&Baslik=Mardin (101 words)

	Mardin, Deyruz-Zafaran Monastery, Turkey-Adiyamanli.org
		The province of Mardin, overlooking the Mesopotamian Plain, has preserved the old- style carving in its houses.
		Marida was taken by the Seljuk Turks in the late 11th century and was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Selim I in 1516.
		From a distance, the golden stone of Mardin houses blend into the rock of the hills on which the city is built.
	www.adiyamanli.org /mardin.html (576 words)

	Anatolia - 7 Wonders Nominates - 7 Wonders Nominates - Mardin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruled by the Assyrians until 800 BC, Mardin was then occupied by Urartu Kingdom and ruled by this Kingdom for 50 years corresponding mostly to the region of King Mimes.
		In 131 BC Mardin and its surrounding area was annexed by the Kingdom of Urfa (Abgars).
		In 1518, the “Sanjak” of Mardin consisted of the central town, Savur and Nusaybin.
	7woa.com /mardin?pos=1 (1523 words)

	BERKLEE \| Berklee News \| Board Certified: Arif Mardin's Zafris Lecture
		But with all the prominence he's achieved in the music industry, Mardin never really left his alma mater behind, having been a Berklee faculty member, trustee, honorary degree recipient, and a member of the school's board of overseers, a post he holds to this day.
		Mardin could never have achieved the success he has without the ability to build a rapport with the artists he works with.
		In response to a question about his studio demeanor, Mardin said he learned at Berklee from Herb Pomeroy that a producer needs to keep everyone relaxed, but mustn't be afraid to yank the reins to keep a project on schedule.
	www.berklee.edu /news/2004/03/mardinzafris.html (741 words)

	Mardin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The chosen neighborhood may thus serve for the convenience of artisans and visitors, though it is not meant to be a “tourist attraction” place or a “convention center”–both implying stereotype starred hotels that remain alien to the local residents of the town.
		Mardin Community Center is to provide permanent space for all cultural activities and temporary accommodation, with related facilities for a social group of community action.
		The town of Mardin, located at crossroads of the upper Mesopotamia, is renown for its multi cultural heritage embodied in its monuments and urban settlement.
	archnet.org /courses/Mardin.html (4956 words)

	Arif Mardin: Producer
		Arif Mardin has engineered and produced an incredible array of classic records from artists such as Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Diana Ross, the Bee Gees and Barbra Streisand — yet the runaway success of his recent work with Norah Jones threatens to overshadow even these achievements.
		Mardin's remarkable studio career began when he moved to New York in the late '50s and secured a job assisting Atlantic Records' chief engineer Tom Dowd.
		Mardin is keen to point out that as a young engineer, he wasn't afraid to take an editing blade to a two-inch master.
	www.soundonsound.com /sos/jul04/articles/arifmardin.htm (3806 words)

	BERKLEE \| BERKLEE NEWS \| Arif Mardin-Grammy Award
		It is a picture of Mardin with Louis Armstrong, taken when the jazz legend visited Berklee in the late 1950s.
		Mardin's first hit for Atlantic was the Rascals' chart-topper "Good Lovin,'" recorded with co-producer Jerry Wexler and engineer Tom Dowd.
		Mardin is extremely modest about the role he has played in fostering the talent of artists like Franklin, Khan and Midler.
	www.berklee.edu /news/2001/02/arif.html (1097 words)

	LM_Arif MARDIN_biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Arif Mardin graduated from Istanbul University and studied at the London School of Economics.
		Mardin enjoys a relationship with Atlantic that allows him to produce albums for other record labels as well.
		In 1990, Mardin was inducted into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.
	www.lightmillennium.org /winter01/arifmardin_bio.html (912 words)

	Fury Reigns after Murder of Father and Son (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The furious people of the Kiziltepe, Mardin urge for the murder, in a police operation, of the 12-year-old Ugur, and his father Ahmet Kaymaz uncovered.
		This is how lawyer Huseyin Cangir, the Mardin branch chair of the Human Rights Association (IHD) conveys local feeling in Mardin after the shooting to death of 12-year-old Ugur Kaymaz and his Father Ahmet Kaymaz by security forces, in front of their Kiziltepe home on November 21.
		The group was made up Mihdi Perincek, the IHD's East-Southeast Regional Representative, lawyer Huseyin Cangir, the head of IHD's Mardin branch, lawyer Selahattin Demirtas, head of IHD's Diyarbakir branch, lawyer Irfan Eser, board member of the IHD Diyarbakir branch, and lawyer Erdal Kuzu, the secretary of IHD's Mardin Branch.
	www.bianet.org /2004/12/01_eng/news50246.htm (1248 words)

	LM_Jive Talkin' with Arif MARDIN by Mehmet DEDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Arif Mardin was born into a renowned family that produced statesmen, diplomats and leaders in the civic military and business sectors of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic.
		When Arif Mardin was consulted in 1972 for the new project he advised them to listen to cutting edge artists of the day like Stevie Wonder.
		Mardin was aware from the very beginning that they needed to use this new instrument they called the synthesizer.
	www.lightmillennium.org /summer_fall_01/mdede_arifmardin.html (2771 words)

	Events of the AES: AES 115th Convention: ARIF MARDIN BIOGRAPHY
		Born in 1932 in Istanbul, Turkey, Arif Mardin graduated from Istanbul University in Economics and studied at the London School of Economics.
		Mardin began his career at Atlantic Records in 1963 as an assistant to the legendary jazz enthusiast and founder, Nesuhi Ertegun.
		Mardin was named "Man of the Year" by the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Foundation, a charitable organization that provides music therapy to autistic and other severely disabled children.
	www.aes.org /events/115/specialevents/arif_mardin_bio.cfm (1011 words)

	Palmer: The Mardin Syrian Orthodox Press
		The list of Dar Mardin includes, at the latest count (May 1997), 71 or 72 titles dated between 1980 and 1997, a period which begins in the second year of the reign of the present Metropolitan Bishop, Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim (abbreviated in what follows to GYI).
		Indeed, sixteen of these books (and at least two others not published by Dar Mardin) are the product of his own labours; and he has edited or written introductions, some of them important contributions in their own right, for many of the rest.
		The Mardin Press has been refused ISBN and ISSN numbers, because it is in Syria; for this reason, and perhaps for others (Syria is justly famous for the thorough approach of its governmental bureaucracy), distribution is a problem.
	syrcom.cua.edu /Hugoye/Vol1No1/DarMardin.html (4345 words)

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		Mardin's bad enough." He saw that her hands were curled into tight fists.
		Mardin had held back until his ribs etched tight against stretched skin while Foster and eventually the girl assuaged their hunger.
		But Mardin stayed, seemingly hypnotized by the random patterns of light and sound, while Connie and Foster retreated along the access corridor and climbed the shaft to the observation level.
	www.scifi.com /scifiction/classics/classics_archive/bryant/bryant1.html (2994 words)

	Mardin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The intentions to place Mardin within the network of libraries in the Mediterranean Basin is furthered by a set of planning and design ideas toward the institution and realisation of a “sensory nerve system” that will enhance the daily life of citizens and contribute for the promotion of Mardin.
		The citizens of Mardin, greatly disappointed with this withdrawal, are in search of operational ideas for their town’s upgrading.
		Mardin claims two treasures of global value: i) the diversity of its religious and ethnic sub-communities; ii) the merging of this diversity in a compact urban form, as if carved out of stone.
	archnet.org /courses/Mardin/MardinComp.html (544 words)

	Fiction: Freedom, Spiced and Drunk, by M. C. A. Hogarth
		The sun shone in Mardin's sand-hued skin and winked in the polished gems braided into its red mane, and the breeze brushed its tail and the grasses in one long stroke.
		Mardin was only another element of the world, the amber plains, the wind-torn clouds.
		Mardin took me to the birth tent to oversee the final hours of my aunt's pregnancy, the same aunt who had seen through her clouded eyes the change in my face.
	www.strangehorizons.com /index.pl?Contents=/2002/20020527/freedom.shtml (4364 words)

	Mardin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mardins father Mahmoud was not at home during the attack.
		Mardin forgot her name, her parents’ name and where she came from.
		A good hearted man working at the hospital, took her to his house as a child of his own, he gave her the name Hero and he raised her under 10 years.
	web.telia.com /~u21123730/ny_sida_19.htm (690 words)

	Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture - Mardin Component (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This component of the Project envisages rehabilitation and upgrading of the old town of Mardin thus improving livability and urban conditions in the area.
		The Citizens' Council is a self organized group composed of representatives of Mardin's civil society and NGOs, ex officio members from the provincial bureaucracy including the Governor.
		Their vision for Mardin is to stimulate the tourism potential of the town based on its cultural heritage.
	www.kultur.gov.tr /portal/default_en.asp?BELGENO=4989 (515 words)

	Turks.US Daily News - Grammy Granddaddy / Arif Mardin
		Arif Mardin's remarkable journey starts not at Atlantic but across the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean: He was born in Turkey in 1932, into a renowned family that produced statesmen, diplomats and business leaders.
		Mardin, for instance, looks for ways to underscore the music rather than overshadow it; sometimes it's as simple a matter as shifting a song to a more comfortable key or adding subtle countermelodies.
		Ahmet Ertegun notes that Mardin "has a terrific background as a musician, and a great understanding of the capabilities of the people that he works with, and he's able to maximize and bring about the magic when they perform a song by putting it in the correct atmosphere.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=20030224083758790 (2618 words)

	Arif Mardin: In Conversation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Arif Mardin is a mover and shaker in the music business, but at age 10, he was the one being shook.
		Mardin survived and went on to work in New York for Atlantic Records, enjoying one of the most illustrious behind-the-scenes careers in the music business.
		Currently Mardin is working on Jones’ follow-up disc as well as his memoirs, beginning with his birth in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1932; through his years at Berklee College of Music in Boston on the Quincy Jones Scholarship; and detailing his storied career at Atlantic, from 1963 to 2001.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=423 (2763 words)

	Turks.US Daily News - Culture Tourism Boom in Turkey
		Tradesmen in Mardin are pleased with the number of tourists that visited Mardin in the first half of 2005 that reached nearly 250,000.
		Mardin’s governor Mustafa Temel Kocaklar indicating activities held in 2004 promoted Mardin on the global scale says, “We currently organize promotion campaigns for more people to visit Mardin.
		We invite businessmen from Mardin to invest in their homeland.” Mardin’s proxy tourism director Alaaddin Aydin, on the other hand, notes mostly foreign and domestic day-trippers visit Mardin due to the insufficient accommodation capacity.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=20050802094028359 (1138 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Blessed Ignazio Maloyan
		Archbishop of Mardin on 22 October 1911, working with the Armenian Catholic minority.
		At the outbreak of WWI, Armenians in Turkey, especially Christians, became target of persecutions.
		On 30 April 1915 a group of Turkish soldiers surrounded the Armenian Catholic Bishopric and church in Mardin, claiming it was used to hide weapons.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintm2u.htm (284 words)

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