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Silvan (Kurdish: Farqîn;
Ottoman Turkish: ميا فارقين, romanized: Meyafarikîn, Armenian: Սիլվան, romanized: Silvan) is a muni****lity and
district of Diyarbakır...
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least the 13th
century the city of Amid had been part of the
Diocese of
Maiperqat of the
Church of the East;
following the
schism of 1552 it
became the...
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Maruthas or
Marutha of
Martyropolis was a
Syrian monk who
became bishop of
Maypherkat in
Mesopotamia (Meiafarakin) for a
period beginning before 399 up...
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Tabyathe and the Kartawaye,
Harran and
Callinicus (Raqqa),
Maiperqat (with Amid and Mardin), Reshʿaïna,
Qarta and Adarma,
Qaimar and Hesna...
- Seleucia-Ctesiphon in 410,
brokered by the
Byzantine envoy Marutha of
Maiperqat, at
which the
Church of the East
accepted the
decisions of the Council...
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Originally a monk at the
Monastery of Qartmin,
Athanasius became Bishop of
Maiperqat, a
bishopric subordinate to the
Metropolitan Bishop of Amid.
During his...
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bishops of
Maiperqat, but not as a
separate diocese. The
patriarch Yahballaha II (1190–1222) was
bishop 'of
Maiperqat and Mardin'
before becoming...
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before the
fourteenth century in the Amid region: the
dioceses of Amid and
Maiperqat,
attested between the
seventh and
thirteenth centuries; the
diocese of...
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Yahballaha Bar Qayyoma, a man of
Mosul who had
earlier been
bishop of
Maiperqat and then
metropolitan of Nisibis. He used
extraordinary boldness to secure...
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Nestorian feasts celebrated in the East. He was born in the city of
Maiperqat, and was
first consecrated a bishop, then
metropolitan of Nisibis, and...
