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Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Rabbulas, Bishop of Edessa
• Petrus, Bishop of Edessa
• Jacobus Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Baldwin I of Edessa
• Baldwin II of Edessa
• Edessa, Macedonia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Bartholomew of Edessa
• Edessa
• Edessa, Martyrs of
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Edessa
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Bartholomew of Edessa
• Edessa
• James of Edessa
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Edessa

An ancient city in Mesopotamia; figures in early Church history, and is reputed to have contained at one time 300 monasteries; it fell into the hands of the Turks in 1515; is regarded as the sacred city of Abraham by Orientals.