Edessa, an ancient city in Mesopotamia; figures in early Church history, and is reputed to have contained at one time 300 monasteries; it fell into the hands of the Turks in 1515; is regarded as the sacred city of Abraham by Orientals.
Population (circa 1900) given as 40,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Eden * Edfu