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Date: Not before 0540-05Event Factoid: After Iyār A. Gr. 851 ( May 540 ), the great men of the city of Edessa saved the city from Chosroes by paying him two centenaria of gold, after which Chosroes returned to Persia .

Source Text

See full text at The Syriac Corpus

Sources:

  • Ignatius Guidi (ed.), Chronica Minora, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 1-2; Scriptores Syri, tomus 1-2 (Paris: E Typographeo Reipublicae, 1903), p: 13.
  • Benjamin Harris Cowper, "Selections from the Syriac. No. 1: The Chronicle of Edessa." Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record n.s. 5.9 (1864), part: 105.

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Daniel L. Schwartz , https://spear-prosop.org/8559-544, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, 2023-03-22-04:00.

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