Nusaybin

Template: Infobox city in Turkey / Maintenance / County

Nusaybin (Kurdish Nisêbîn, Aramaic: ܨ ܘ ܒ ܐ, soba ) is a town in the district of the Turkish province of Mardin Nusaybin on the Turkish- Syrian border. The city has 88 047 inhabitants and the same county 115 072 (as of 2012).

In Nusaybin there is a road border crossing to Syria's neighboring city of Al -Qamishli. The railway line connecting the two cities, part of the Baghdad Railway, is in the cross-border traffic from service. Nusaybin itself, however, approached yet by freight trains of the Turkish railway.

The name of the city was in ancient Nisibis ( the ancient and medieval history, see there). Nisibis was then fought between Rome and Iran; it belonged since 363 permanently to the Sassanian Empire, which expelled the inhabitants and replaced by Persians. Nisibis was conquered 639/640 AD by Muslim Arabs, 1515 was part of the Ottoman Empire, and was appointed in 1920 to Turkey. Today, mainly Arabs and Kurds living in the city.