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| Keywords: CostumsoftherichfemalesofOrfa.jpg Post-card by Capucin Mission of the Costumes of the rich females of the city of Urfa or Edessa now in southern Turkey north of the Syrian border and prior to 1920's part of the Aleppo province Edessa was a strong center of Aramaic culture and thought the Prophet Abraham Settled there for a while at close-by Harran Center for the cult of Moon and Sun Sabians cult of Atargatis close-by Munbij or Hierapolis in Syria Early Christianity adopted by the Abgars kings of Edessa the correspondence between Jesus and King Abgar V the origin of the shroud of Turin Center of the Early Gnostic Academy surviving well into the Islamic era and hot bed of early Eastern Christian movements Assyrian ChristiansNestorians and Monophysites Christians Jacobites or Syriac The County of Edessa was a Crusader state for a brief period Most Arabic speaking Syriacs and Armenians of Urfa fled to Syria and Lebanon in the 1920's http //mideastimage com/result aspx before 1920 s PD-old Costumes of the Ottoman Empire Women of the Ottoman Empire Şanlıurfa History of Şanlıurfa Province National costumes | ||||
