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    The Edessa Ecclesiastical Museum (Greek: Εκκλησιαστικό Μουσείο Έδεσσας) was founded in the northern Greek city of Edessa in 1996, by the local Diocese...
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    settlements in the Pella regional unit Edessa Ecclesiastical Museum Folklore Museum of Edessa "Municipality of Edessa, Municipal elections – October 2023"...
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    Varosi (category Edessa, Greece)
    Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Edessa [mk] Edessa Ecclesiastical Museum Folklore Museum of Edessa Korina Miller (2018). Greece (13th ed.). Footscray...
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  • of Edessa, modern Turkey Edessan Ecclesiastical Museum, an ecclesiastical museum in Edessa, Greece Edessan Waterfalls, a waterfall site near Edessa, Greece...
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    a village at a distance of 10 kilometres from the junction between the Edessa-Florina National Road and the Arnissa road in Central Macedonia, Greece...
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  • Jacob of Edessa (or James of Edessa) (Syriac: ܝܥܩܘܒ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ, romanized: Yaʿqub Urhoyo) (c. 640 – 5 June 708) was Bishop of Edessa and prominent Syriac...
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  • Daiṣān "son of the Dayṣān") was a Syriac author born on 11 July 154 in Edessa, Osroene, which, in those days, was alternately under the influence of both...
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  • India and China, Java and Japan. Thus the shift of ecclesiastical authority was away from Edessa, which in AD 216 had become tributary to Rome. the establishment...
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    her father. In 1132, she allied with Pons of Tripoli and Joscelin II of Edessa to prevent Fulk from marching north. Fulk and Pons fought a brief battle...
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    was somewhat tense; the northern crusader states of Tripoli, Antioch, and Edessa increasingly asserted their independence, and there was no king to impose...
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    mosque in the town of Edessa, Macedonia, in Greece, and it is the only surviving mosque of the town. It now functions as a museum. Based on the monument's...
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  • Folklore Museum (Polygyros) History and Folklore Museum (Arnaia) Archaeological Archaeological Museum of Pella Ecclesiastical Ecclesiastical Museum (Edessa) Folklore...
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  • Urfa was founded as a city under the name Edessa by the Seleucid king Seleucus I Nicator in 303 or 302 BC. There is no written evidence for earlier settlement...
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    its original was written in Syriac, which places the Acts of Thomas in Edessa, likely authored before 240 AD. The surviving Syriac manuscripts, however...
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    King Izates. Moses of Chorene makes her the chief wife of Abgar V, king of Edessa. What is known of Helena is based on the writings of Josephus, Movses Khorenatsi...
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    Mediterranean, the four states were, in order from north to south: the County of Edessa (1098–1144), the Principality of Antioch (1098–1268), the County of Tripoli...
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    serve wine Holy Sponge – Instrument of the Passion of Jesus Christ Image of Edessa – A painting of Jesus Christ's face Seamless robe of Jesus – Robe said to...
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    during and after the First Crusade were located further north: the County of Edessa (1097–1144), the Principality of Antioch (1098–1268), and the County of...
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    April, 1865). Wright, William (1867). "Two Epistles of Mār Jacob, Bishop of Edessa". Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record. New Series. 10: 430–460...
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    forced to leave when Joscelin II, Count of Edessa rallied the citizens to oust him. After the fall of Edessa in 1144, many Syriac Orthodox Christians came...
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    Eustathius of Antioch, of the philosopher Troilus, of the fifth-century ecclesiastical writer Philip; of the famous lawyer Tribonian. Side began a steady decline...
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    Drama's palace on Venizelou St. In the spacious and well-attended halls, ecclesiastical treasures of priceless spiritual and artistic value are on exhibition...
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    coach network (KTEL). Veria is linked to Thessaloniki by the Thessaloniki-Edessa railway, with connections to Athens and Alexandroupoli. Thessaloniki International...
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    of the two apostles is said to have cured Abgar V of Edessa of leprosy with the Image of Edessa, leading to his conversion in AD 30. Thaddaeus was then...
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    Catholicos should be the sole head of the Church of the East and that no ecclesiastical authority should be acknowledged above him. For the first time, this...
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    squabbling Artuqids in 1128 and capturing the County of Edessa from the Crusaders after the siege of Edessa in 1144. This latter feat made Zengi a hero in the...
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    Roman client in upper Mesopotamia, just east of Syria, with its capital at Edessa. They deposed the country's leader, Mannus, and replaced him with their...
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    Narsai, Philoxenus of Mabbog, Babai the Great, Isaac of Nineveh and Jacob of Edessa. There were substantial efforts to translate Greek texts into Syriac. A...
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  • events and works of art, just as significant has been the presence of ecclesiastical institutions that, alongside civil ones, have influenced social life...
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  • Syriac Documents relative to the earliest Establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the neighboring Countries, from the Year of our Lords Ascension to the...
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