Notable people associated with the school include its founder Narses; Abraham, his nephew and successor; Abraham of Kashgar, the restorer of monastic life; and Archbishop Elijah of Nisibis. As a fortified frontier city, Nisibis played a major role in the Roman-Persian Wars.

Nisibis (Greek Νίσιβις; modern Nusaybin): ancient town in Mesopotamia, famous for its late-Roman school.

Nov 15, 2006 · Nisibis is the Greek name for a city of great antiquity, sited in a plain below Mons Masius (the modern Tur Abdin) and on the river Jhagjhaga (Greek: Mygdonius). It was well-positioned along the main arteries of trade between Syria and the lands beyond the Tigris, and between Mesopotamia and Armenia.

The Metropolitanate of Nisibis was an East Syriac metropolitan province of the Church of the East, between the fifth and seventeenth centuries.

Nusaybin faces the Syrian town of Al-Qāmishlī and is 32 miles (51 km) south-southeast of Mardin. Strategically commanding the entrance to the upper plains of Syria from the mountain passes of Asia Minor (Anatolia), Nusaybin—then called Nisibis—was a frontier …

Nisibis, the place where Severus lived, was the chief city (see Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography) of Mygdonia, a small district in the northeast part of Mesopotamia.

The School of Nisibis (Syriac: ܐܣܟܘܠܐ ܕܢܨܝܒܝܢ, for a time absorbed into the School of Edessa) was an educational establishment in Nisibis (now Nusaybin, Turkey).

Nisibis, known today as Nusaybin, is a historical town located in southeastern Turkey, at the foothills of the Tur Abdin mountain range, near the river Mygdonius. The area has been significant since the first millennium BC, originally serving as the capital of the Aramaic state of Hanigalbat. Over the centuries, Nisibis has changed hands among various empires, including the Assyrians ...

NISIBIS (Neşibin, Nezibin), the modern townlet Nesib in S. Anatolia. Over a long period (under the Roman rule, until 363; and under the rule of Persia and the Arabs) Nisibis was a flourishing trading station on the commercial route from the Far East to the western countries.

School of Nisibis, intellectual centre of East Syrian Christianity (the Nestorian Church) from the 5th to the 7th century. The School of Nisibis (now Nusaybin, Tur.) originated soon after 471, when Narsai, a renowned teacher and administrator at the School of Edessa, and his companions were forced to leave Edessa (modern Urfa, Tur.) because of ...