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Malatya
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Ma·la·tya  (mäl-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: 381,000.

Malatya [ˌmɑːlɑːˈtjɑː]
n
(Placename) a city in E central Turkey: nearby is the ruined Roman and medieval city of Melitene (Old Malatya). Pop.: 400 248 (1997)


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He was consecrated titular Archbishop of Melitene on 20 July 1953 (ordained 8 November 1953) and translated to the Archdiocese of Melbourne on 13 April 1967.
 
 
 
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