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Nisibis

Nusaybin, Turkey

37.070, 41.218

Attested. Ephrem's Nisibene period is well supported by his own hymns and later Syriac memory.

Nisibis, now
Now. Oystercard. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Nisibis, then
Then. Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

A frontier city and an early center of Syriac Christian teaching, associated with Ephrem before the city was ceded to Persia in 363.

Sources

No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.

Cited notes

  • 489. After the School of Edessa closed, a theological school flourished at Nisibis under Persian rule.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Nisibis · Unverified in the source note

  • 350. Ephrem the Syrian writes the Nisibene Hymns during the Persian sieges of Nisibis.

    NPNF2-13, Nisibene Hymns · Verified in the source note

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