Our so-called Friends...

[Piling]

In ancient Assyrian tablets, Melatî was called "Melidda". It was a Hittit city. Roman called him Melita or Melitene and the legend wants that queen Semiramis founded it.

Kharpurt comes from Armenian Khartpert. In Armenian, pert= rock, clift. But Aramean people called him : Hisn Zayt, and Roman translated it as "castellum Ziata" so Castle of Ziata.

Then Kharput is a vulgar form of common Armenian.

Franj crusaders transformed it in "Quart-Pierre" then Quarter-Stone...

Then Kurds say Xarpût.

I know that people will ask my source

Encyclopédique islamique, Leyden, "Malatya" and "Khartpert".

[Vladimir]

It's Leiden. That's old Dutch.

[Piling]

Right :

Leiden, E J. Brill Publishing house.

[zurderer]

Just I guessed.