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Nisibis (other)
Nisibis may refer to : * the Classic Greek name of Nusaybin (or Nizib), a presently Asian Turkish city on the Syrian border, which was an archbishopric in Mesopotamia Prima * its various Catholic successor sees, all titular archbishoprics : ** Nisibis of the Romans (Latin Church) ** Nisibis of the Armenians (Armenian Catholic Church) ** Nisibis of the Chaldeans (Chaldean Catholic Church) ** Nisibis of the Maronites Nusaybin (; '; ar, نُصَيْبِيْن, translit=Nuṣaybīn; syr, ܢܨܝܒܝܢ, translit=Nṣībīn), historically known as Nisibis () or Nesbin, is a city in Mardin Province, Turkey. The population of the city is 83,832 as of 2009 and is ... (Maronite Church) * the former Ecclesiastical province of Nisibis of the ''Church of the East'' * ''Nisibis'' (cockroach), a genus of insect in the family Ectobiidae See also * Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Hassaké–Nisibi (where Nisibis is merely an added second title) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nusaybin
Nusaybin (; '; ar, نُصَيْبِيْن, translit=Nuṣaybīn; syr, ܢܨܝܒܝܢ, translit=Nṣībīn), historically known as Nisibis () or Nesbin, is a city in Mardin Province, Turkey. The population of the city is 83,832 as of 2009 and is predominantly Kurds, Kurdish. Nusaybin is separated from the larger Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli by the Syria–Turkey border. The city is at the foot of the Mount Izla escarpment at the southern edge of the Tur Abdin hills, standing on the banks of the Jaghjagh River (), the ancient Mygdonius ( grc, Μυγδόνιος). The city existed in the Assyrian Empire and is recorded in Akkadian language, Akkadian inscriptions as ''Naṣibīna''. Having been part of the Achaemenid Empire, in the Hellenistic period the settlement was re-founded as a ''polis'' named "Antioch on the Mygdonius" by the Seleucid dynasty after the conquests of Alexander the Great. A part of first the Roman Republic and then the Roman Empire, the city (; ) was mainly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
