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IntersectionLieuAntiquité–XIXe siècle

Region: Turquie (Anatolie orientale)

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The ancient Melitene of Lesser Armenia (eastern Anatolia), Malatya is mentioned in Talmudic and medieval rabbinic sources as the seat of a Jewish community, which persisted through the Ottoman period.

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The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Malatya (Mélitène) give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Sources & resources

  • Encyclopaedia Judaica2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
  • Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic WorldBrill

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