Edessene
- a word derived from Edessa.
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Certain it is that the earliest documents that have survived in Syriac, or Edessene Aramaic, do not represent an experimental stage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
Chosroes I. Anushirwān succeeded in 540, according to the last entry in the Edessene Chronicle, in exacting a large tribute from Edessa; but in 544 he besieged it in vain.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
Acacius, another of the Edessene party, was put into this principal See, and suffered, if he did not further, the innovations of Barsumas.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal
