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Edessa
[ ih-des-uh ]
noun
- an ancient city in NW Mesopotamia, on the modern site of Urfa: an early center of Christianity; the capital of a principality under the Crusaders.
Edessa
/ ɪˈ»åÉ›²õÉ™ /
noun
- an ancient city on the N edge of the Syrian plateau, founded as a Macedonian colony by Seleucus I: a centre of early Christianity Modern nameUrfa
- a market town in Greece: ancient capital of Macedonia. Pop (municipality): 25 729 (2001) Ancient nameAegaeˈiËÉ¡iË Modern Greek nameÉdhessa
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- ·¡Â·»å±ð²õs²¹²Ô ·¡Â·»å±ð²õ·²õ±ð²Ô±ð [ih-, des, -een], adjective
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I tried Turkish coffee for the first time at the Kurdish restaurant Edessa’s, where saffron rice was called “yellow rice.â€
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The agency said the truck was stopped Monday on a secondary road near the northern town of Edessa.
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He says that a Jewish merchant from Edessa bought the metal and required 900 camels to carry it off.
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St. Ephrem, in a time of pestilence, emerged from his solitude to found and superintend a hospital at Edessa.
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And this applies, with stronger force, to the converts scattered from Edessa, east of the Euphrates, to the Empire’s westernmost limits in Britain.
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