Nisibis

Nisibis is now reduced to one hundred and fifty houses: the marshy lands produce rice, and the fertile meadows, as far as Mosul and the

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

But when he could not prevail, he led them back, and crossing Taurus by another road, came into the fruitful and sunny country of Mygdonia, where was a great and populous city, by the barbarians called Nisibis, by the Greeks

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

In Mesopotamia, or Assyria proper, the Israelites were assigned to the region centring about the city of Nisibis, which is mentioned by Josephus as their leading settlement.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

There are parentheses about the Sarmatians, the Goths, the Persian empire and the siege of Nisibis.

Gibbon Chapter XVIII nwhyte 2010

St. Ephrem was born in a christian family in Nisibis, a town located in the eastern part of the Roman Empire.

Archive 2007-06-01 Marguerite 2007

St. Ephrem was born in a christian family in Nisibis, a town located in the eastern part of the Roman Empire.

Hymn on Paradise Marguerite 2007

Only in the 10th century did Syrian monks gain prominence, and at this time Moses of Nisibis is credited with valuable additions to the library.

1,500-year-old Coptic Library Argent 2006

Cabira, Sinope, and Nisibis, seizing and overwhelming the northern parts as far as the Phasis, the east as far as Media, and making the South and Red Sea his own through the kings of the Arabians.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

The third ms., which Cureton quotes as g, has no date, but, as he tells us, "belonged to the collection acquired by Moses of Nisibis in a.d. 931, and was written apparently about three or four centuries earlier."

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

His successor, Jovian, made a treaty with Shapur in which Rome restored all the Mesopotamian territories ceded by Narseh, as well as Nisibis and Singara.

c. Shapur II to the Reforms of Khusrau I 2001