Sunday, December 18, 2011

Women's World Team Chess Championship 2011




HISTORY OF MARDIN
Most Syriac Orthodox churches and monasteries in the city were built on ancient Assyrian-Babylonian temple sites and some are still active today. The Syriac Orthodox Saffron Monastery was founded in 439 AD and is one of the oldest monasteries in the world and the only one that is still functioning in southern Turkey. From 1160 until 1932, it was the seat of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch, until the Patriarchate relocated to the Syrian capital Damascus. The site of the monastery itself is said to have been used as a temple by sun worshippers as long ago as 2000 BC.[3][4] Mardin is likely the Maride and Marida of the Greeks and Romans. Another important church, Kırklar Kilisesi (Church of the 40 Martyrs), originally built in the name of Benham and Saro, the two sons of the Assyrian ruler who executed them because they chose to become Christian, dates from 569 AD[citation needed], and even during its use as a capital by the Artukid Turkish dynasty which ruled Eastern Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. The 12th century Sitti Radviyye Madrasa, the oldest of its kind in Anatolia, dates from this period.

The lands of the Artukid dynasty fell to the Mongols who took control of the region in 1394, but the Mongols never directly governed the area. Mardin was later controlled by the Turkic tribes who came from Central Asia Akkoyunlu kingdom. The Kasımiye Madrasa was built by Sultan Kasım, son of the Akkoyunlu Sultan Cihangir, between 1457 and 1502. In 1517, Mardin was conquered by Ottoman Turks. 

First Round Pairing
Bo.
Name
IRtg
FED
Bo.
Name
IRtg
FED
1
GM
Koneru (C) Humpy
2600
IND
1
GM
Kosintseva Nadezhda
2546
RUS
2
GM
Harika Dronavalli
2512
IND
2
GM
Kosintseva Tatiana
2526
RUS
3
IM
Tania Sachdev
2428
IND
3
GM
Kosteniuk Alexandra
2439
RUS
4
WGM
Padmini Rout
2392
IND
4
IM
Gunina Valentina
2514
RUS
WGM
Soumya Swaminathan
2302
IND
WGM
Pogonina Natalija
2451
RUS

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