Definitions for Edessa

Edessa E·des·sa

Spelling: [ih-des-uh]
IPA: /ɪˈdɛs ə/

Edessa is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in Edessa (adeess).

Definitions for Edessa

noun

  1. an ancient city in NW Mesopotamia, on the modern site of Urfa: an early center of Christianity; the capital of a principality under the Crusaders.

Examples for Edessa

Chosroes employed the same device in his siege of Edessa a little later.

There was no necessity for him to answer in person, as in the case of Abgarus, king of Edessa.

The archbishop of Edessa and his clergy and many other Christians have been killed there.

The most famous ones are the Mandylion of Edessa, the Veronica and the Shroud of Turin.

The loss of Edessa sounded a trumpet note of alarm to the West.

It is not important to trace the vicissitudes of the building of Edessa any further.

It bears the name of Abgarus, the name of several of the kings of Edessa.

Yet there were undoubtedly a large number of Christians in Edessa in Eusebius day.

This structure you may see in Edessa F., and many other bugs.

He then achieved the triumph of his life by the capture of Edessa.

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