Midyat

Midyat is a city in , with a population in 2025 of 70,000. Its main attraction is its compact old town, and collection of outlying monasteries.
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  • Type: Town with 119,000 residents
  • Description: town in Midyat District, Mardin Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Estil”, “Medeat”, and “Mityat”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Mosque of Midyat and Saint Mary Church.

Mosque
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Church
Photo: Kivercik, CC0.

Church
Photo: Vincent Vega, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Midyat

Latitude
37.4153° or 37° 24′ 55″ north
Longitude
41.3733° or 41° 22′ 24″ east
Population
119,000
Elevation
949 metres (3,114 feet)
Open location code
8H93C98F+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 130193871
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
304382
Wiki­data ID
Q743601
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Midyat” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مديات”
  • Armenian: “Միդիադ”
  • Asturian: “Midyat (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Midyat”
  • Bengali: “মিদিয়াত”
  • Bulgarian: “Мидят”
  • Catalan: “Midyat”
  • Cebuano: “Midyat İlçesi”
  • Cebuano: “Midyat”
  • Central Kurdish: “مدیاد”
  • Chechen: “Мидйат”
  • Chinese: “Midyat”
  • Chinese: “米迪亚特”
  • Chinese: “米迪亞特”
  • Dutch: “Midyat”
  • Esperanto: “Midyad”
  • Esperanto: “Midyat”
  • French: “Midyad”
  • French: “Midyat”
  • Gagauz: “Midyat”
  • German: “Midyat”
  • Gilaki: “ميديات”
  • Greek: “Μιντγιάτ”
  • Hungarian: “Midyat”
  • Indonesian: “Midyat”
  • Irish: “Midyat”
  • Italian: “Midyat”
  • Japanese: “ミディヤット”
  • Kurdish: “Midyad”
  • Kurdish: “Mîdyad”
  • Kurdish: “Midyat”
  • Kurdish: “Mîdyat”
  • Kurdish: “مدیاد”
  • Malay: “Midyat”
  • Mazanderani: “میدیات”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Midyat”
  • Minangkabau: “Midyat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Midyat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Midyat”
  • Norwegian: “Midyat”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܕܝܕ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܶܕܝܰܕ”
  • Persian: “میدیات”
  • Polish: “Midyat”
  • Romanian: “Midyat”
  • Russian: “Мидьят”
  • Serbian: “Мидијат”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میدیات”
  • Spanish: “Midyat”
  • Swahili: “Midyat”
  • Swedish: “Midjat”
  • Swedish: “Midyat”
  • Tatar: “Мидьят”
  • Turkish: “Midyat (Türkiye’deki ilçe merkezi)”
  • Turkish: “Midyat”
  • Ukrainian: “Мідьят”
  • Urdu: “مدیات”
  • Uzbek: “Midyat”
  • Venetian: “Midyat”
  • Vietnamese: “Midyat”
  • Western Mari: “Мидьят”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع مدیات”

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