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The monastery of Mor Hananyo (also known as Kurkmo Dayro in Syriac and Deir ez-Za`faran or Deyrulzafran in Arabic meaning the "Saffron Monastery", so named for the yellowish rock from which it is built), lies 6 km southeast of Mardin. Founded in 493 AD, it was, from 1160 until 1932 the seat of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch - though the Patriarchate has since relocated to Damascus.

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