| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Malatya |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Ma·la·tya |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  mä l -tyä |
| A city of east-central Turkey in the Taurus Mountains. It was the capital of a Hittite kingdom c. 1100 b.c. and was long a strategic frontier outpost. Malatya was annexed by the Ottoman Empire in 1516. Population: 319,700.
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