Edessa — <foreign xml:lang="syr">ܐܘܪܗܝ</foreign> Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft The National Endowment for the Humanities The International Balzan Prize Foundation Thomas A. Carlson David A. Michelson Silvio Roggo William L. Potter Emma Loosley Florence Jullien Holger Gzella John Healey Jonathan Loopstra Nathanael Andrade Susan Harvey Data merging for Syriac World maps data by William L. Potter Syriac World maps edited by David A. Michelson Syriac World maps data revised by William L. Potter Syriac World maps cartography by Ian Mladjov Connection to the Syriac World identified by Emma Loosley Connection to the Syriac World identified by Florence Jullien Connection to the Syriac World identified by Holger Gzella Connection to the Syriac World identified by John Healey Connection to the Syriac World identified by Jonathan Loopstra Connection to the Syriac World identified by Nathanael Andrade Connection to the Syriac World identified by Susan Harvey Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis Arabic description entry by Dayroyo Roger-Youssef Akhrass Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal http://syriaca.org/place/78/tei

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ADDED: Data from Syriac World maps ADDED: John of Ephesus Ecclesiastical History data CHANGED: Implemented May 2019 batch changes, see https://github.com/srophe/srophe-app-data/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A2019-May-Batch-Changes. The issues labeled were #742, #743, #746, #747, #749, #752, #754, #757, #759, #761, #763, #765, #766, #767, #768, #769, #770, #771, #772, #773, #774, #792, #793, #794, #797, #802, #803, #804, #806, #807, #815, #816, #817, #818, #819, #820, #821, #822, #823, #824, #825, #826, #827, #829, #831, #832, #833, #834, #836, #843, #847, #848, #849, #850, #851, #852, #853 CHANGED tei:author element to tei:persName under tei:event element. ADDED: Yaqut citation and attestation ADDED: markup around Syriac name in attestation event FIXED: date in relation was erroneously 363 instead of 641 FIXED: URI for confessions.xml needed "documentation/" to be inserted ADDED: syriaca-computed-end for elements with when attributes ADDED: syriaca-computed-start and syriaca-computed-end attributes for searching FIXED: location of quotation marks relative to elements in location of type "relative" ADDED: work URIs to attestation state elements CHANGED: desc or label within event to p FIXED: renamed "errata" to "incerta" as note type FIXED: attestation78-6 and attestation78-7 pointed to the wrong confession ADDED: confession78-6 and bib78-11 ADDED: confession URIs FIXED: missing attestation 5 ADDED: confession Melkite, attestations 3-7 ADDED: names 8-10, events in 213, 489, 641, 1098, 1144, 1517, 1913-1919, 1924 REMOVED: relation to Ephrem (http://syriaca.org/person/13), to be stored in person record ADDED: name and confession attestations, and Chabot bibl item FIXED: typo in errata note ADDED: errata note ADDED: Barsoum Syriac to licence ADDED: citation of GEDSH article separate from that of maps REMOVED: place type from title ADDED: formattable markup to title and licence FIXED: CBSC entry information and added idno CBSC links ADDED: License for Barsoum data FIXED: document titles and source URI ADDED: CBSC article name and link CREATED: place Edessa Urfa ܐܘܪܗܝ ܐܘܪܗܳܝ ܐܘܪܦܰܗ̈ الرها اورفه Adme Antiochia Kallirhoe Urhay الرُّهاء أَذاسا ܡܕܝܢܬܐ A city of Mesopotamia, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Osrhoene, modern Urfa. 183. Edessa ܡܕܺܝܢܬܐ ܗܳܝ ܛܒܝܒܬܳܐ ܠܡܰܕܢܚܳܐ ܕܚܳܠܳܒ ܚܰܡܫܳܐ ܝܰܘܡ̈ܝܢ ܘܡܶܫܬܰܡܗܐ ܝܰܘܡܳܢ ܐܘܪܦܰܗ̈ مدينة مشهورة خمسة ايام عن حلب شرقا وتسمى اليوم اورفه. a famous city, five day journey eastward from Aleppo, now called Urfa. 37.15 38.8 37.1453862000 38.7838840000 five day journey eastward from Aleppo Renamed Edessa by Seleucus I Nicator. Flood of the river Daiṣan destroyed part of city. Full incorporation into the Roman Empire. Closure of the "School of the Persians." Edessa conquered by the Arabs. Edessa conquered by the Crusaders. Edessa conquered by Zengi of Mosul. Edessa incorporated into the Ottoman Empire. Massacres of some of Armenian and Syriac Christians during World War I. Emigration of remaining Armenian and Syrian Christians to Aleppo. Attestation of name ܐܘܪܗܝ in the anonymous Chronicle of 1234. Attestation of Syrian Orthodox church in Edessa in the anonymous Chronicle of 1234. Attestation of Christian church in Edessa according to the Chronicle of Edessa. Attestation of Chalcedonian author in Edessa according to the Chronicle of Edessa. Attestation of Chalcedonian bishop in Edessa according to the Chronicle of Edessa. Attestation of anti-Chalcedonian bishop in Edessa according to the Chronicle of Edessa. Attestation of Syrian Orthodox metropolitan for Edessa according to Barsoum's Scattered Pearls. Attestation of names الرُّهاء and أَذاسا in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. Christians Syrian Orthodox Melkites Muslims Latin Christians Jews GEDSH article identifies its river as the Balikh, but the identification is contested. http://syriaca.org/place/78 https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658457 http://syriaca.org/johnofephesus/places/78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edessa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Şanlıurfa http://www.csc.org.il/db/browse.aspx?db=SB&sL=E&sK=Edessa&sT=keywords A. Harrak 183. Edessa The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 138-139 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 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, 448 Map I B1, II B1, III ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ 556 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية 516 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences 553 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity Edessa David Wilmshurst The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913 53, 65, 361, 362 Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838 2:912 Anonymi auctoris chronicon ad annum Christi 1234 pertinens 2:136 Chronica minora Ignatius Guidi 1:2, 11, 13 Jews and Christians at Edessa Han J. W. Drijvers 90, 102 Muʿjam al-buldān Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī I:155; III:120 119; 155; 157; 165; 313 3.3.27; 3.3.28; 3.3.29; 3.3.33; 3.6.17 156 3.3.28 1, 2, 7 827 460-475 88-104 205-221 47-67 293-308 770-782 554-567 Osrhoene Roman Empire Edessa (region) This place shares a name with one or more distinct places. This place shares a location with one or more distinct places that should not be confused with one another.