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ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES

   
Dara Ruins

         Mardin (Center), Mardin Castle, Dara Ruins in Oğuz Village, Savur District, Kışla Quarter in Nusaybin District, and Gırnavaz Ruins in Nusaybin Çağlar Village.

  DARA RUINS

With its castle built by Yuvanish a famous Persian King it is the most archaic city that contains water canals known as the oldest canals in the world and has got splendour pattern carved rocks and mountains being    obstinate against nature.

Being 30 km far to Mardin at the east Dara was the most famous and historical city in the Mesopotamian plain.

With its theatre stages, water cisterns, water mill, dam, bridge and a 40 km underground jail Dara, witnessing centuries, was the important place once a university was to have been built in.
 

 
 
 

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