Abandoned Towns: Edessa, the First Crusader Capital

Описание: 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)
https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Byzant...

(Basil II)
https://roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu/...