Nusaybin

Nusaybin is a metropolis and a couple of titular see in Mardin Province, Turkey. The populace of the town is 83,832 as of 2009. The population is predominantly Kurdish, Sunni as well as Yezidi, however a small Christian network can also be determined. With a records going again almost 3,000 years, Nusaybin was ruled and settled by using diverse businesses. First stated as an Aramean agreement Nasibina in 901 BCE, it turned into captured via Assyria in 896 BCE.

In the 4th and 5th centuries CE it was one of the remarkable facilities of Syriac scholarship, at the side of close by Edessa. First stated in 901 BCE, Nasibina changed into an Aramaean nation captured by using the Assyrian king Adad-Nirari II in 896. By 852 BCE, Nasibina had been fully annexed to the Neo-Assyrian Empire and seemed inside the Assyrian Eponym List because the seat of an Assyrian provincial governor named Shamash-Abua.

It remained a part of the Assyrian Empire till its crumble in 608 BCE. It changed into under Babylonian control until 536 BCE, whilst it fell to the Achaemenid Persians, and remained so till taken by way of Alexander the Great in 332 BCE. The Seleucids refounded the metropolis as Antiochia Mygdonia, noted for the primary time in Polybius' description of the march of Antiochus III the Great against Molon.