Urfa - Urfa Urfa or Urhai or Edessa is a city in south eastern Turkey identified as the original Ur of the Khaldis mentioned in Genesis where Abram was born. To the Arabs it was known as Ar-Ruha and to the Greeks it was Orra. See also: Edessa.
Sanli Urfa - Sanli Urfa Sanli Urfa (in Turkish Şanlıurfa) is a city in eastern Turkey, about 80 kilometres east of the Euphrates river. According to Muslim tradition it is the location of Ur, and the birthplace of Abraham is said to be at a mosque in the city. In ancient and medieval times it was called Edessa (for a more detailed history of the city, see that article). Under the Ottomans it was a centre of trade in cotton, leather, and jewellery. It still has ruins of its ancient walls and of an Arab castle. The population is about 275,000 (1990). There are 3 Catholic parishes, Syrian, Armenian, and Latin..
Harran - name Harranu, or "Road". Harran is also mentioned in the Old Testament as the place where Terah halted after leaving Ur, and apparently the birthplace of Abraham, a town on the stream Jullab, some nine hours' journey from Edessa (present day Sanli Urfa) in Turkey. The Yahwistic writer (Genesis 27:43) makes it the home of Laban and connects it with Isaac and Jacob. But we cannot thus put Haran in Aramnaharaim; the home of the Labanites is rather to be looked for in the very similar word Hauran. During the reign of King Hezekiah, it rebelled from the Assyrians, who reconquered the city (2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah, 37:12), and deprived it of many privileges that king Sargon II later restored. It was the centre of a considerable commerce, trading with Tyre.
Edessa - a town in northern Mesopotamia. For the modern history of the city, see Sanli Urfa. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Christianity 3 Cultural History The name under which Edessa figures in cuneiform inscriptions is unknown; the native name was Osroe, after its purported founder (who was probably only legend), this being the Armenian form for Chosroes; it became in Syriac Ourhoï, in Armenian Ourhaï in Arabic Er Roha, commonly Orfa or Sanli Urfa, its present name. Seleucus I Nicator, when he refounded the town as a military colony, 303 BC, called it Edessa, in memory of the ancient capital of Macedon of similar name (now Vodena). Under Antiochus IV Epiphanes the town was called Antiochia on Callirhoe by colonists from Antioch who had settled there. On the foundation of.
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Abdullah Öcalan - "Öcalan" means, in Turkish, "he who takes revenge"' He was born on April, 4th 1949 into a poor peasant family in the village of Omerli, Urfa. He studied at vocational school and then pursued a course at the School of Political Science, Ankara University. He became involved in militant Maoist politics and was first arrested in 1973. In 1975 he returned to Kurdistan and in 1978 he was one of the founder members of the PKK. At the First Congress in November 1978 he was elected leader. He left Turkey in 1979, before the military coup of September 1980, which led to the imprisonment of thousands of members and sympathisers of the party. In 1982 the PKK decided to resume an armed struggle inside Turkey and in August 1984 the military.
South Tyneside - South Shields and Jarrow (which also serves Hebburn and the Urban Fringe villages). The weather is variable and typical of a Maritime Climate. The approximate location of South Tyneside is 0 degrees east/ west and 55 degrees north. History Celtic traditions, Roman settlers, Angles, Saxons and Jutes, Viking invasions, Irish immigrants, Arab seafarers and more recently the settling of people from the Indian sub-continent reflect the present-day culture of South Tyneside. In South Shields (Roman 'Caer Urfa'), excavations and a reconstructed fort are found at Arbeia (AD 160). This fort served as a garrison and an outpost of the Roman Empire, and is part of Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site. The hospitality strip at Ocean Road is famed throughout the region for its Indian, Italian, Middle Eastern and Chinese cuisine. Mill.
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Osroene - name of its capital city, Edessa (modern Sanli Urfa), was one of several kingdoms arising from the dissolution of the Seleucid Empire. The kingdom occupied an area on what is now the border between Syria and Turkey. It was in this region that the "legend of Abgarus" originated, for which see Abgarus of Edessa. Osroene was absorbed into the Roman Empire in 114 as a semi-autonomous vassal state, then incorporated as a province in 214. Rulers of Osroene Aryu (132 - 127 BC) Abdu bar Maz'ur (127 - 120 BC) Fradhasht bar Gebar'u (120 - 115 BC) Bakru I bar Fradhasht (115 - 112 BC) Bakru II bar Bakru (112 - 94 BC) Ma'nu I (94 BC) Abgar I Piqa (94 - 68 BC) Abgar II bar Abgar (68 - 52.
Latin names of cities - "London" (from English). Here are the names that are listed in Latin and its modern meaning on the right for the world, except for Europe, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Kurdistan. This list includes Azerbaijan, Kurdistan southeast of Arbil, Abkhazia, Chechnya, Tatarstan, Dagestan, Malta and Pantelleria, and the whole of Kazakhstan, and Russia east of the ural mountains. Latin Name English Name, [other name(s)], [older name(s)], [province], [state] Alexandria (Aegyptus)¹ Alexandria (Al-Iskandriyah), Egypt Alexandria (Colombia Bretannicum) Alexandria, British Columbia Alexandria (Ontario) Alexandria, Ontario Alexandria (Virginia) Alexandria, Virginia Algeris Algiers, Algeria Arbela, Arbila Erbil, Arbil Ascalon Ashkelon, Israel Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia Augusta Augusta, Maine Baltimorum, Baltimori Baltimore, Maryland Bona Aera Buenos Aires, Argentina Cansae, Civitas Kansas City Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Civitas Alphabeticum Alphabet City (New York, New York Civita California California City, California.
