Abandoned Towns: Edessa, the First Crusader Capital
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- Edessa (Center of Early Christianity and First Crusader Capital) Modern-Day Turkey
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Intro: This week's edition of Abandoned Towns will be covering user Adian's suggestion of Edessa. Next week I will be releasing a video for my Abandoned History series!
Description: Edessa was once a major population center and seen as a city of prominence for the Christian world. It is the location where the Christian relic known as “the image of Edessa” was found. The image of Edessa was an icon depicting Jesus Christ. Its claim to fame is that the image of Jesus had miraculously appeared and that depiction was the true appearance of christ. Edessa also served as the Capital of the first crusader state the "County of Edessa" established by Baldwin of Jerusalem during the 1st crusade. In antiquity, Edessa served as the capital of one of the first Christian Kingdoms, the Kingdom of Osroene. Throughout its existence, it was controlled by Persians, Romans, Arabs, Byzantines, Armenians, Crusaders, and Turks.
Today the ancient city of Edessa sits in modern-day turkey. The city is currently known by the name of Urfa. Interestingly Urfa's biggest claim to fame is its proximity to the neolithic archaeological sight of Gobekle tepe.
Today Urfa is a run-of-the-mill Turkish provincial city with an almost exclusively Muslim population.
This leaves us with a question how did Edessa go from a major Christian city of the medieval world to a Turkish provincial town?
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Great resources on the topic:
(Philaretos Brachamios)
www.hellenicaworld.com/Byzant...
(Basil II)
roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu/...
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Assyrian/Syriac-Aramaic history! Great to see. Thank you very much!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! Assyrian history is so under appreciated!
A densely woven tapestry of storytelling and elegantly proffered lessons for the accomplished critical thinker.
Thank you!
Great vid!
For your next video, can you please do Nisibis, modern day Nusaybin.
It has been continuously inhabited and has survived many great empires and wars. Its amazing that despite the test of time people still call the city home!
Thanks
Thanks so much for the kind words! I will definitely look into Nisibis !
Thank you so much for taking up my recommendation! I thought the video was fantastic, and can't wait to see what you make next!
It was my pleasure Aidan! Glad you enjoyed!
A very comprehensive and in-depth synopsis of Edessa’s history. Props to you for being able to pack all of that in while still maintaining the focus on Byzantine rule & the Crusades. Baldwin was goated as Edessa’s ruler - Theodoros was a beta
every week i wait for these! nice
Means a lot to hear that! Thanks for checking back weekly and sorry about the delay this week!
this channel is exactly what i want out of a youtube channel Im subbing for sure. I would love if you dicussed in more detail the seperate states of the Diadochi after Alexanders Conquest
Thanks Scratchh. In the future I definitely plan on making some more videos on the Diadochi!
Very interesting. Edessa and Upper Mesopotamia as essential part of the Roman and Christian world is fascinating to me. ✝️
I’m glad you enjoyed!
Great video.Greetings from Athens Greece!Perhaps you could make an episode about the ancient city of Cuma,and it's colonies in the Mediterranean.Thank you so much!
Thank you Anastasia! I visited your beautiful city back in 2007 and had an incredible time! I will definitely look into Cuma and might cover it in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!
Great Vid! Keep it up
Thanks Scott!
Great video! Just one thing: In my opinion, the music is a bit too loud - maybe reduce its volume by a little?
Will do next time!
When I was in Istanbul, I saw Mohammed's hair in a museum. Can you do a video or a short on how Mohammed's hair sample can possibly be obtained?
Another amazing thing I saw were Ganghis Kang's influnce on the kitchens in some of these buildings. It would be interesting to see a video on famous conquers and the cultural architecture that lasted.
Thought?
Oh and keep up the great work
Please make a video about Edessa from 10 BC to 100 AD. Covering the Edessan monarchs Freitas, Queen Thea Musa Ourana, King Agbaras, Queen Helena, and King Mono Basilus.
That was fascinating. Thanks
Thank you Daisy, very glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for this Assyrian history
My pleasure, I feel the Assyrians are far too overlooked. Especially the non ancient history of Assyria. In the future I will do more!
Ctesiphon please! It was supposed to inspire the architecture of Baghdad so must have been an amazing city
I'd like to see the ruins of ancient Antioch, thanks!
Thanks for the recommendation Marina. I will @ you when I make that video.
King Abgar 5 descended from the Armenian Arsacid dynasty (from 12 to 428 AC), was the son of Arsham Arshakuni, the nephew of Tigranes the Great. His name was "Avag Ayr". Assyrians and Greeks couldnot pronounce his Armenian name so they called him Abgar. Look up Movses of Khorenatsi...there is ancient Armenian manuscripts to back this up...Edessia was part of Armenian Kingdom in Anatolia!!!!!There were several peoples living under his authority. But the king was of Armenian descent🇦🇲🙏✝️
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Do you mention that Jesus came from Edessa?
So did St Thomas the apostle.
See book 'Jesus, King of Edessa'.
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Dude your channel is awesome, I’d love to give you a shoutout if you’d let me?
I appreciate the kind words bro. I would of course appreciate a shout out. What form would you do it in, would be happy to return the favor!
@@abandonedhistoryUS I was thinking a community post, we link a video and then each others channel. I’d love to do a collab sometime in the future when my schedule isn’t as busy. Lmk when you wanna do the post!
@@StoicHistorian Sent you an email! Nonetheless, I would be down to do the post today or Sunday (but I am flexible if you have a diff time in mind). I was going to post this video of yours which I enjoyed thoroughly th-cam.com/video/4_-9kBexpVE/w-d-xo.html
@@StoicHistorian In terms of collab I would definitely be open to that as our content is complimentary. I too am busy with work these days hence my lack of a full video upload recently. We should stay in touch for future opportunities, I know something fitting will come up!
The Abgrid monarchy were not Nabatean.
They were known as Arabs, but that was derogatory. Arab can mean 'locust', which is why the Abgrids were called locusts in the Talmud and Acts of the Apostles. These monarchs were considered (by their detractors) to be the equivalent of the locusts in the biblical Plagues.
This monarchy actually came from Parthia - they were the Babylonian Jews, as described by Josephus. The Talmud concurs, calling them proselyte Jews. They started the Jewish Revolt, according to Josephus, which is why they were disliked, and why they were deleted from history.
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While I respect your confidence the sources I have don’t corroborate this version of events. According to current scholarship the Abgrids were of a Nabatean Arab background.
Yes they came from Parthia right before their Kingship over Osroene, but families do have the ability to move around. Movement from Arabia into Parthia was not uncommon at this time.
No reliable sources I am aware of make the claim they were Jewish and if they were they ceased practicing their religion immediately. Some sources have claimed Armenian heritage but there is little to no linguistic support for this. Using linguistics of regnal names, instead of using the Talmud (which is kind of an odd choice in this context), it is evident that their rulers had a Nabatean origin.
Source: www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abgar-dynasty-of-edessa-2nd-century-bc-to-3rd-century-ad
Here is another source: referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-encyclopedia-of-early-christianity-online/*-SIM_00000012
The image of Edessa is the image of king Izates ll Aka king Isa/issa/jesus in real history not biblical.....
Adiabene and Edessa/Antioch