Turkey
Eastern Anatolia
Malatya Province

Malatya

Malatya is a city of half a million people in . It has limited sights for a city of its size, but here you might break a journey to Mount Nemrut and the eastern fringes of Turkey.
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  • Type: City with 781,000 residents
  • Description: metropolitan municipality in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Aspuzu” and “Malatiyah”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Malatya Museum and New Mosque, Malatya.

Museum
Photo: Kpisimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum in Malatya, The museum faces Kernek square in Malatya at Although a smaller museum was established in 1971, the present museum building was opened in 1979.

Mosque
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The New Mosque is a mosque in Malatya, . The original mosque was burned down in a fire in Malatya Bazaar in 1889, and was subjected to another fire in 1890 before it was repaired.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hanımınçiftliği.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 13,322. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town.

Malatya

Latitude
38.3487° or 38° 20′ 55″ north
Longitude
38.3191° or 38° 19′ 9″ east
Population
781,000
Elevation
963 metres (3,159 feet)
IATA airport code
MLX
United Nations Location Code
TR MLX
Open location code
8GCW88X9+FJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26486997
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
304922
Wiki­data ID
Q165995
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Malatya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ملاطية”
  • Arabic: “مَلَاطِيَةُ”
  • Arabic: “ملطية”
  • Arabic: “مَلَطْيَةُ”
  • Armenian: “Մալադիա”
  • Armenian: “Մալաթիա”
  • Armenian: “Մելիտինե”
  • Asturian: “Malatya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Malatya”
  • Basque: “Malatya”
  • Belarusian: “Малат’я”
  • Belarusian: “Малатя”
  • Breton: “Malatya”
  • Bulgarian: “Малада”
  • Bulgarian: “Малатия”
  • Bulgarian: “Малатя”
  • Catalan: “Malatya”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەلەتی”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەلەدی”
  • Chechen: “Малати”
  • Chinese: “Malatya”
  • Chinese: “馬拉蒂亞”
  • Chinese: “马拉蒂亚”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Malatya”
  • Czech: “Malatia”
  • Czech: “Malatya”
  • Czech: “Melitene”
  • Czech: “Meliténé”
  • Czech: “Milid”
  • Danish: “Malatya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Meletiya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Meletiye”
  • Dutch: “Malatya”
  • Dutch: “Melitene”
  • Esperanto: “Malatjo”
  • Esperanto: “Malatya”
  • Finnish: “Malatya”
  • Finnish: “Melitene”
  • French: “Malatia”
  • French: “Malatya”
  • Gagauz: “Malatya”
  • Georgian: “მალათია”
  • German: “Malatya”
  • Gilaki: “ملطيه”
  • Greek: “Μαλάτεια”
  • Greek: “Μελιτηνή”
  • Hebrew: “מלטיה”
  • Hindi: “मलत्या”
  • Hungarian: “Malatya”
  • Indonesian: “Malatya”
  • Italian: “Malatya”
  • Japanese: “マラティア”
  • Japanese: “マラティヤ”
  • Japanese: “マラテヤ”
  • Japanese: “マラトヤ”
  • Kabardian: “Malatya”
  • Kazakh: “Malatʹya”
  • Kazakh: “Малатиа”
  • Kazakh: “Малатья”
  • Kazakh: “مالاتيا”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Malatya”
  • Korean: “말라티아”
  • Korean: “말라티야”
  • Kurdish: “Malatya”
  • Kurdish: “Meledî”
  • Kurdish: “Meletî”
  • Kurdish: “Meletye”
  • Kurdish: “مەلەدی”
  • Latin: “Melitene”
  • Latvian: “Malatja”
  • Lithuanian: “Malatija”
  • Lithuanian: “Malatja”
  • Lombard: “Malatya”
  • Macedonian: “Малатија”
  • Malay: “Malatya”
  • Mazanderani: “ملطیه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Malatya”
  • Minangkabau: “Malatya”
  • Nauru: “Malatya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Malatya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melitene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malatya”
  • Norwegian: “Malatya”
  • Ossetian: “Малатья”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਲਾਤਿਆ”
  • Persian: “مالاتیا”
  • Persian: “ملاطیه”
  • Persian: “ملتیه”
  • Persian: “ملطیه”
  • Polish: “Malatya”
  • Polish: “Melitene”
  • Portuguese: “Malátia”
  • Portuguese: “Malatya”
  • Portuguese: “Melide”
  • Portuguese: “Melitene”
  • Pushto: “مالاتیه”
  • Romanian: “Malatya”
  • Romanian: “Melatia”
  • Russian: “Малатья”
  • Russian: “Мелитена”
  • Russian: “Мелитина”
  • Scots: “Malatya”
  • Serbian: “Malatija”
  • Serbian: “Malatya”
  • Serbian: “Малатија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Malatya”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Melitena”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Melitene”
  • Silesian: “Malatya”
  • Slovak: “Malatya (súčasné mesto)”
  • Slovak: “Malatya”
  • Slovenian: “Malatya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مالاتیا”
  • Spanish: “Malatya”
  • Spanish: “Melatia”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Malatya”
  • Swahili: “Malatya”
  • Swedish: “Malatya”
  • Swedish: “Melitene”
  • Tajik: “Малатия”
  • Talysh: “Malatja”
  • Talysh: “Malatya”
  • Tatar: “Малатия”
  • Tatar: “Малатья”
  • Turkish: “Malatya”
  • Udmurt: “Малатья”
  • Ukrainian: “Малатья”
  • Urdu: “مالاطیہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Malatya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Malatya”
  • Western Armenian: “Մալաթիա”
  • Western Mari: “Малатья”
  • Western Panjabi: “ملطیه”
  • Wu Chinese: “马拉蒂亚”

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