The district town of Silvan (100km/62mi east of Diyarbakir) probably stands on the site of Tigranocerta, the Old Armenian capital. A town called Martyropolis, of which only some walls survive, was founded here in the fifth century by Bishop Marutha. He was the bishop who persuaded the Sassanids to adopt a more tolerant attitude to Christianity
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