• Rhesaina (Rhesaena) (Ancient Greek: Ρέσαινα and Ρεσαίνα) or Resina (Ῥέσινα) was a city in the late Roman province of Mesopotamia Secunda and a bishopric...
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    Christian bishop and was at first a Metropolitan see, with three suffragans : Rhesaina (also called Theodosiopolis), Rhandus and Nasala. Its first known bishop...
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    Later known as the ancient Aramean city of Sikkan, the Roman city of Rhesaina, and the Byzantine city of Theodosiopolis, the town was destroyed and rebuilt...
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    Nisibis, but in 243 the Roman general Timesitheus defeated the Persians at Rhesaina and regained the lost territories. The emperor Gordian III's (238–244)...
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    Previous post(s) Vicar Apostolic of Upper Canada (1819–26) Titular Bishop of Rhesaina (1819–26) Orders Ordination 16 February 1787 Consecration 31 December 1820...
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    Sapë (Albania) (1928.06.13 – 1935.10.30), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Rhesaina (1935.10.30 – death 1952.12.20) Barnabé Piedrabuena (1928.12.17 – 1942...
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    gathered in the area of the Khabur, perhaps at Ras al-Ayn (Hellenistic Rhesaina). In May 1104 they attacked Edessa, perhaps to distract the crusaders from...
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    stationed there. Legio III Parthica and its Castrum (homebase) may have been Rhesaina, but that is uncertain. Following Emperor Diocletian's tetrarchy reform...
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  • Ressiana may refer to Rhesaina, a late Roman city in Mesopotamia Secunda Ressiana (North Africa), a late Roman City in North Africa Resana Ressia All pages...
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    Nisibis (Nusaybin), Amida, Singara, Hatra, Edessa, Bezabde, Circesium, Rhesaina (Theodosiopolis), Sergiopolis (Resafa), Callinicum (Raqqa), Dura-Europos...
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