Turkey Regions (Outside Tur-'Abdin)

• Adana

• Amasya: A town fifty miles south of Samsun, on the bank of Yesil Irmak.

• Antioch

• Aksaray: A town sixty miles northeast of Konya.

• 'Arqa: A town, formerly west of Melitene; still inhabited.

• Arzenjàn: a town southwest of the province of Erzurum. The natives call it Erzincan.

• Arzun: a large city, formerly northwest of Siirt. Its ruins can still be seen.

• 'Ayn Dàbà: a town in the district of Antioch whose location is unknown; birthplace of the learned Jacob of Edessa.

• 'Ayn Zarba (Anàzarba): a town in Cilicia, on the river Jijan. Today it is a small village called Anàzura.

• Batnan: An ancient town, was located near Sarug.

• Beth Bätin: an extinct town outside Harran.

• Beth Qandasa: Near Edessa

• Beth Nabu: Near Mubbag

• Caesarea: a town southeast of Ankara, known today as Kayseri.

• Cappadocia

• Castabala: In Cilicia. Has bishops from 325 to 550

• Cercesium

• Celenderis: Today is called Cilindere in Cilicia. Had Bishops from 381 to the 6th century

• Claudia: A citadel near Melitene, destroyed and rebuilt by al-Hasan Ibn Quhtuba in 141 A.H. Around the citadel was built a town bearing the same name, but it was laid to ruin after the thirteenth century.

• Cyzicus: an ancient city on the Sea of Marmara, destroyed by an earthquake in 943.

• Dayr Habil: a village in the province of Siirt, which I do not believe is inhabited.

• Dawlu: A small town northwest of Mersin.

• Farzman in the vicinity of Ra'ban.

• Harran: once a great city, a day's journey south from Edessa but now is a small village.

• Hattakh: a citadel and a small town north of Miyapharqin, in the Sufniyyin province; popularly called Antakh.

• Hisno d'Mansur: a town north of Samosata on the west bank of the Euphrates; also called Adyaman.

• Hisno d'Ziyad: the town of Kharput between Amid and Melitene. Its people moved to the nearby new town of Ma'murat al-'Aziz.

• 'Ibra in the environs of Jubas

• Jubas: a ruined city near Melitene.

• Julmarek: Is a city in the Hikkary mountain

• Kafr Tibna: an ancient village near Harran

• Karkar (Gargar): an ancient citadel and town near Melitene, between Samosata and Hisno d'Ziyad, west of the Euphrates.

• Kishir: village in the province of Antioch.

• Kesum: an ancient town in the province of Samosata, between Aleppo and Edessa. It also had a citadel.

• Kharbut

• Kharshana: a town near Melitene.

• Kishir: a village in the province of Antioch, birthplace of the Syriac poet Simon the Potter (514).

• Kondar: perhaps Kandiri, north of Ismit, near the Black Sea.

• Konya: a city in central Anatolia, south of Ankara.

• Laqabin: an ancient town in the province of Melitene.

• Manazgird (Manzikert) : Now called Malazgirt, a town north of Lake Van.

• Massisa: a town on the Jijan, just east of Adana.

• Melitene [Malatya]: a city in the province of Ma'murat al-'Aziz, near the Euphrates. In the past it was large and famous. It was one of the largest centers of the Syriacs, who in 1049 had fifty six churches there. It was also the birthplace of a number of Syriac learned men. Today it is a small town.

• Murayba 

• Orim: a ruined town on the Euphrates, near Samosata.

• Phanir: In the province of Qallisura.

• Qal'a Rumaita: Possibly the hometown of Patriarch Philoxenus Nemrud

• Qallisura: an ancient town in the vicinity of Melitene.

• Qar Shar (Qir Shar): a town southeast of Ankara.

• Qarikara: a village in the province of Melitene. Master Saliba Qarikari (d. 1164) is thought to have come from there.

• Qawartam: a village on the Euphrates, the birthplace of Jacob of Sarug (d. 521).

• Ra'ban

• Ruhin: a village near Antioch.

• Salahiyya: a town east of Yarbuz in the Adana province.

• Salihiyya: a village near Edessa, established by 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Salih al-Hashimi. Al-Khalidi states that it was near al-Raqqa, near Batyas and the Monastery of Mar Zakka. The first person to build palaces there was the Abbasid Caliph al-Mahdi.

• Samando (Simando): a town in central Anatolia.

• Samosata: a city in the Roman territory on the Euphrates. To its east lies Balu and to its west Kharput, contiguous to Armenia.

• Sarug: a small town in the Mudar territory, between Harran and Jarabulus. 

• Saubat: Near Harran

• Sermin: a small town in the province of Aleppo.

• Sibaberk North of Edessa

• Shaghr

• Shaizar

• Sidos: a village in the Manazgird [Malazgirt] territory

• Sis

• Sozopolis: a town in Pisidia in Asia Minor, west of Konya, no longer in existence.

• Swayrik: a town in Karkar, about two days journey southwest of Diyarbakir. It may be Sibaberk.

• Tarsus

• Tell Bashir

• Tell Batriq: a town formerly in Roman territory, one of many which formed the line of fortification between Roman and Muslim territories near Melitene.

• Tell Arsenius: on the Euphrates, near Kharput.

• 'Urbish: a big village in Karkar, inhabited by Syriacs until recent times.

• Urhai (Edessa): a famous city, five day journey eastward from Aleppo, now called Urfa.

• Wanik: a village in the province of Karkar, also called Dayr Abu Ghalib