Edessa - ܐܘܪܗܝ

http://syriaca.org/place/78

A city of Mesopotamia, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Osrhoene, modern Urfa.

Names

ܐܘܪܗܝ
Edessa2, 5, 6, 7, 15, 16
ܐܘܪܗܳܝ3, 8
ܐܘܪܦܰܗ̈3
ܡܕܝܢܬܐ14
أَذاسا12
الرها4
الرُّهاء12
اورفه4
Adme1
Antiochia Kallirhoe1
Urfa2, 5, 7
Urhay1

Place Type

settlement

Location

Coordinates (preferred):
- Lat. 37.15° Long. 38.8°2
Coordinates (alternate):
- Lat. 37.1453862000° Long. 38.7838840000°15
" five day journey eastward from Aleppo "5

Events

Renamed Edessa by Seleucus I Nicator. 1 Flood of the river Daiṣan destroyed part of city. 1 Full incorporation into the Roman Empire. 1 Closure of the "School of the Persians." 1 Edessa conquered by the Arabs. 1 Edessa conquered by the Crusaders. 1 Edessa conquered by Zengi of Mosul. 1 Edessa incorporated into the Ottoman Empire. 1 Massacres of some of Armenian and Syriac Christians during World War I. 1 Emigration of remaining Armenian and Syrian Christians to Aleppo. 1

Attestations

Attestation of Christian church in Edessa according to the Chronicle of Edessa [http://syriaca.org/work/119] . 10 Attestation of anti-Chalcedonian bishop in Edessa according to the Chronicle of Edessa [http://syriaca.org/work/119] . 10 Attestation of Chalcedonian bishop in Edessa according to the Chronicle of Edessa [http://syriaca.org/work/119] . 10 Attestation of Chalcedonian author in Edessa according to the Chronicle of Edessa [http://syriaca.org/work/119] . 10 Attestation of name ܐܘܪܗܝ in the anonymous Chronicle of 1234 [http://syriaca.org/work/113] . ܐܘܪܗܝ 9 Attestation of Syrian Orthodox church in Edessa in the anonymous Chronicle of 1234 [http://syriaca.org/work/113] . 9 Attestation of names الرُّهاء and أَذاسا in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. الرُّهاء12 أَذاسا12 12 Attestation of Syrian Orthodox metropolitan for Edessa according to Barsoum's Scattered Pearls [http://syriaca.org/work/215] . 5

Notes

GEDSH article identifies its river as the Balikh, but the identification is contested.

Known Religious Communities

This list is not necessarily exhaustive, and the order does not represent importance or proportion of the population. Dates do not represent starting or ending dates of a group's presence, but rather when they are attested. Instead, the list only represents groups for which Syriaca.org has source(s) and dates.

Christians (attested as early as 201, as late as 1624)
- Syriac (attested as early as 201, as late as 1624)
  - West Syrian (attested as early as 201, as late as 1624)
    - Melkite (attested as early as 201, as late as 1624)
    - Syrian Orthodox (attested as early as 201, as late as 1624)
- Latin (attested as early as 201, as late as 1624)
Jews (attested as early as 201, as late as 1624)
Muslims (attested as early as 201, as late as 1624)

Status: published Is this record complete?

Works Cited

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1 A. Harrak, Edessa, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 138-139.
2 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 1, 4, 5–6 (with fig. 1), 9–10, 13, 15–16, 18, 26, 29, 31, 33–34, 36, 37–38, 41, 46, 54, 56, 60, 64, 69, 71, 74, 84, 86, 90, 97–98, 99, 102, 107–108, 126, 127, 128, 132–133, 138–139 (with fig. 47), 145, 153, 155, 162, 163, 164, 178, 191–192, 195–196, 197, 199, 201–202, 209, 213, 220, 229, 237, 249, 252, 260–261, 262, 266, 267, 268, 270, 271–272, 273, 284, 287, 288, 303–304, 314, 316, 317, 322, 327–328, 332, 335, 343, 346, 348, 350, 351, 352, 356, 361, 363, 367, 376, 377, 384, 390, 392, 398, 401, 403, 407, 410–411, 419, 431, 432, 433, 438–439, 444, 446, 448map: Map I B1, II B1, III.
3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani and ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝܦܝܠܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ ܝܘܚܢܢ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 556.
4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم, كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 516.
5 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 553.
6 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Edessa