Edessa
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Modern name: Urfa. an ancient city on the N edge of the Syrian plateau, founded as a Macedonian colony by Seleucus I: a centre of early Christianity
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Ancient name: Aegae. Modern Greek name: Édhessa. a market town in Greece: ancient capital of Macedonia. Pop (municipality): 25 729 (2001)
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While he spent most of his career ruthlessly scheming against other Muslim rulers, he managed to take the city of Edessa, in the northernmost of the Crusader States.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
He says that a Jewish merchant from Edessa bought the metal and required 900 camels to carry it off.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2017
The king venerated a mysterious image of Christ known as the Mandylion of Edessa, which was believed to have been imprinted by supernatural means.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 8, 2011
That image had long been defined by the Mandylion of Edessa, a piece of fabric thought to contain a direct impression of Jesus’ face.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2011
In the third century, about 250 a.d., ‘an authoritative revision, accepted by Syriac Christendom,’ was made, of which the locality would be either Edessa or Nisibis, or else Antioch itself.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
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