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Malatya (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 38 21 01 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 38.3502 decimal degrees |
| Long: 038 19 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 38.3167 decimal degrees |
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Note: Six miles NE of modern Malatya; was important Hittite city and later an independent city-state; capital of Lesser Armenia in Roman times; Roman city of Melitene was a military headquarters during the reign of Justinian (6th century CE); became a metropolitan see in early Christian times; center for the Christian Jacobite sect; fell to the Seljuq sultanate of Rum in the 12th century; excavated by the French from 1932 on; bas-reliefs found are among the best surviving examples of Hittite art. |
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| Malatya (preferred,C,V,English)
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| Malatya (Swedish)
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| Malatya (German)
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| Malatya (Turkish,U)
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| Malatya (French)
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| Malatya (Dutch)
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| Eskimalatya (C,V)
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| Eski Malatya (C,V)
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| Old Malatya (C,O)
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| Malatia (C,O)
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| Arslantepe (C,V)
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| Malatiyah (C,V)
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| Malatjas ils (C,U,Latvian)
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| Malatýa (C,U,Turkmen)
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| Malatya ili (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Malatya İli (C,U,Turkish)
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| Malatya probintzia (C,U,Basque)
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| Malatya Province (C,U,English)
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| Malatya Province (Scots)
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| Malatya Province (Tagalog)
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| Malatya provints (C,U,Estonian)
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| Malatya Vilâyeti (C,U)
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| Malatyjská provincie (C,U,Czech)
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| Meletî (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Meletiye (C,U,Dimli)
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| Mkoa wa Malatya (C,U,Swahili (generic))
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| Provincia de Malatya (C,U,Spanish)
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| Província de Malatya (C,U,Catalan)
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| Provincia di Malatya (C,U,Italian)
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| Provincia Malatya (C,U,Romanian)
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| Provinco Malatya (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Provinsen Malatya (C,U,Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Provinsi Malatya (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Wilayah Malatya (C,U,Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Малатья (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Малатья (Russian)
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| Малатья (Western Mari)
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| Малатья (Chuvash)
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| Малатья (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| मलात्या प्रांत (C,U,Marathi)
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| مالاتيا ۋىلايىتى (C,U,Uyghur)
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| صوبہ مالاطیہ (C,U,Urdu)
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| Малатија (C,U,Serbian)
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| Малатија (Macedonian)
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| Малатия (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Вилояти Малатия (C,U,Tajik)
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| Επαρχία Μαλάτειας (C,U,Greek)
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| Մալաթիայի նահանգ (C,U,Armenian)
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| Правінцыя Малатя (C,U,Belarusian)
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| پارێزگای مەلەدی (C,U,Central Kurdish)
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| صوبہ ملاتیا (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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| 马拉蒂亚省 (C,U,Chinese)
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| მალათიის პროვინცია (C,U,Georgian)
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| ملطية (C,U,Arabic)
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| 말라티아 주 (C,U,Korean)
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| マラティヤ県 (C,U,Japanese)
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| استان ملطیه (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Melitene (H,V,Latin)
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| Milid (H,V)
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| Milidia (H,V)
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Malatya (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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known settlement in area dates to 4th mill. BC |
| archaeological site (C) |
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| ancient site (C) |
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| capital (H) |
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| city-state (H) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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| first level subdivision (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| located on .... |
Persian Royal Road .......... (road) |
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(World, Asia) [8711714] |
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