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Syriac Christians
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Syriac Christianity.
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Indigenous Aramaic-speaking communities of the Near East (Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܝܐ) adopted Christianity very early, perhaps already from the first century, and began to abandon their three-millennia-old traditional ancient Mesopotamian religion, although this religion did not fully die out until as late as the tenth century. The kingdom of Osroene, with the capital city of Edessa, was absorbed into the Roman Empire in 114 as a semi-autonomous vassal state and then, after a period under the supremacy of the Parthian Empire, was incorporated as a Roman province, first in 214, and finally in 242.