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  Edessa may refer to:

  • Edessa, Greece
    Edessa, Greece

    Edessa is the capital of the Pella Prefecture of Macedonia , Greece. Administratively, it belongs to the Central Macedonia peripheries of Greece and is also the capital of the defunct provinces of Greece of the same name....
  • Edessa, Mesopotamia
    Edessa, Mesopotamia

    Edessa is the historical name of a Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people town in northern Mesopotamia, refounded on an ancient site by Seleucus I Nicator....
    , now Sanliurfa
    Sanliurfa

    Sanliurfa , formerly cited as Edessa, Mesopotamia in in Aramaic, Riha in Kurdish language, and Urhay in Armenian language) is a List of cities in Turkey in south-eastern Turkey, and the capital of Sanliurfa Province....
    , Turkey
  • County of Edessa
    County of Edessa

    The County of Edessa was one of the Crusader states in the 12th century, based around a city with an ancient history and an early tradition of Christianity: Edessa, Mesopotamia....
    , a crusader state
  • Osroene
    Osroene

    Osroene , also known by the name of its capital city, Edessa, Mesopotamia , was a historic Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people kingdom located in Mesopotamia, which enjoyed semi-autonomy to complete independence from the years of 132 BC to AD 244....
    , an ancient kingdom and province of the Roman Empire