Old Mardin City (UNESCO)

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : Former Drone Video of the Week Finalist emrahkarakoc brings us this stunning first person view (FPV) drone video of Mardin, a very old city in southeastern Turkey. Mardin is the capital of the province of the same name, in Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia region. The city lies just a short distance north of the Syrian border. Mardin has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, and was part of two different Assyrian empires. Most of its prominent architecture dates to its time under a Turkmen dynasty in the 11th-12th centuries.

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Mardin is a charming city situated on the slopes of a rocky hill. Currently listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List as Mardin Cultural Landscape to be evaluated for the permanent one, every inch of the city oozes history and culture, and these lands along the Tigris River have been the crossroads of civilizations since the dawn of civilization itself. The entire city is essentially an open-air museum. Most of the city’s buildings use beige colored limestone rock which has been mined for centuries in local quarries. The city’s history goes back at least until the 14th century B.C., when it was an important spot in the Middle Assyrian Empire and known as Izala, its Persian name. It’s been more or less continuously a cultural hub of the region, and there are traces in the city from Muslim, Syriac, Yakubi, Chaldean, Nesturi, Yezidi, Jewish, Kurdish, Arab, Chechen, Armenian influences