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Malatya

Malatya (Armenian: ??????????????, romanized: Malat'ia; Syriac ?????????????? Mal???????n??; Kurdish: Melet??; Ancient Greek: ????????????????) is a large city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Malatya Province. The city has been a human settlement for thousands of years. In Hittite, melid or milit means "honey", offering a possible etymology for the name, which was mentioned in the contemporary sources of the time under several variations (e.g., Hittite: Malidiya and possibly also Midduwa; Akkadian: Meliddu; Urar??tian: Meli???eia). Strabo says that the city was known "to the ancients" as Melitene (Ancient Greek ????????????????), a name adopted by the Romans following Roman expansion into the east. According to Strabo, the inhabitants of Melitene shared with the nearby Cappadocians...

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