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  Adiabene
Adiabene occupied a district in Mesopotamia between the Upper Zab River (Lycus) and the Lower Zab (Caprus), though Ammianus speaks of Nineveh, Ecbatana, and Gaugamela as also belonging to it.
The Adiabene was the country between upper and lower Zab and that is the land of Kurds; and the Kurdish vocabulary does in fact contain numerous expressions which were borrowed directly from the old Semitic Iraq before the Arab period and which are foreign to all other Iranian dialects.
Adiabene remained a provinces of the Sassanid Empire until the Islamic conquests of Persia.
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - ADIABENE:
Trajan invaded Adiabene, and made it part of the Roman province of Assyria; under Hadrian in 117, however, Rome gave up possession of Assyria, Mesopotamia, and Armenia.
In the summer of 195 Severus was again warring in Mesopotamia, and in 196 three divisions of the Roman army fell upon Adiabene.
It is impossible to tell how far the inhabitants of Adiabene had followed the example of their king and become Judaized.
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 Adiabene - Japan
Adiabene occupied a district in Mesopotamia between the Upper Zab River (Lycus) and the Lower Zab (Caprus), though Ammianus speaks of Nineveh, Ecbatana, and Gaugamela as also belonging to it.
At times the throne of Adiabene was held by a member of the Achamenid house; Ardashir III (361-338 BC), before he came to the throne of Persia, had the title "King of Hadyab".
Helena was queen of Adiabene and wife of Monobaz I. With her husband she was the mother of Izates II.
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 DIABENE, a district near the present﷓day borders of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, approximately 36° north latitude and ...
ADIABENE, a district near the present-day borders of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, approximately 36° north latitude and 44° east longitude, bounded on three sides by the Tigris and its tributaries the Greater and Lesser Za@b, while eastwards it extended to Lake Orm^a.
In a similar fashion, the ruler of Adiabene, Monobazus, in the first decades of the Christian era intended his heir to be a younger child, Izates (Ezad), but for protection sent the youth away instead to reside with Abinerglos, king of Characene or Mesene (MaiÞa@n).
Furthermore, the Jews of Adiabene soon became famous for their strict attention to the spirit of the Law, and it was remarked that they always placed a mezuzah or Biblical text on the doors of their lodging when they traveled.
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Adiabene occupied a district in Mesopotamia between the Upper Zab River (Lycus) and the Lower Zab (Caprus), though Ammianus speaks of Nineveh, Ecbatana, and Gaugamela as also belonging to it.
At times the throne of Adiabene was held by a member of the Achamenid house; Ardashir III (361-338 BC), before he came to the throne of Persia, had the title "King of Hadyab".
Monobaz I is known ot have been allied with king Abennerig of Characene, in whose court his son Izates bar Monobaz lived for a time and whose daughter Symacho Izates married, as well as the rulers of other small kingdoms on the periphery of the Parthian sphere of influence.
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 Adiabene, Jewish Kingdom of Mesopotamia
Upon the death of Monobazus, Izates' mother Helena sent for all of the governors, rulers, and oligarchs of the kingdom of Adiabene for Izates' coronation.
Judaism in Adiabene survived the death of Izates and Helena.
Following that logic, one may wonder what religion was practiced by the population of Adiabene, and what the religion was of the rulers of Adiabene until the advent of Christianity in Adiabene.
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Adiabene's tax base should be 1 (not 0), hence Parthia-Media's tax base is 18 (not 17).
Adiabene's tax base should be 1 (not 0), hence Parthia-Media's tax base is 26 (not 25).
Adiabene's tax base should be 1 (not 0), hence Persia's tax base is 57 (not 56).
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 Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Adiabene"
Adiabene (from the Aramaic Hadyab) was an ancient kingdom in Mesopotamia with its capital at Arbela (modern-day Arbil, Iraq).
The Queen of Adiabene at the time of the conversion to Judaism, Queen Heleni, moved to Jerusalem, and built palaces for herself and her son, King Monbaz at the northern part of the city of David, south of the Temple Mount.
During the Roman conquest of Judea and Samaria (68–67 BCE), it was only Adiabene that sent provisions and troops to the rescue of the besieged Galilee.
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 Adiabene, Jewish Kingdom of Mesototamia
Upon the death of Monozabus, Izates' mother Helena sent for all of the governors, rulers and oligarchs of the kingdom of Adiabene for Izates' coronation.
Izatid Epilogue Judaism in Adiabene survived the death of Izates and Helena.
Following that logic, one may wonder what religion was the population of Adiabene, and what the religion was of the rulers of Adiabene until the advent of Christianity in Adiabene.
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 NPNF2-01. Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine | Christian ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Both Izates and Helen embraced the Jewish religion, and the latter happening to come to Jerusalem in the time of the famine, did a great deal to relieve the distress, and was seconded in her benefactions by her son.
Adiabene was probably a small province lying between the Tigris, Lycus, and the Gordiæan Mountains (see Dion Cassius, LXVIII.), but before the time of Pliny, according to Vaux (in Smith’s Dict.
Izates was king of Adiabene in the narrower sense.
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 ADIABENE Articles Adiabene (from the Greek: ?d?aß???,
Adiabene occupied a district in Mesopotamia between the Upper Zab River (Lycus) and the Lower Zab (Caprus), though Ammianus speaks of Nineveh, Ecbatana, and Gaugamela as also belonging to it.
At times the throne of Adiabene was held by a member of the Achamenid house; Ardashir III (361-338 BC), before he came to the throne of Persia, had the title "King of Hadyab".
Monobaz I is known ot have been allied with king Abennerig of Characene, in whose court his son Izates bar Monobaz lived for a time and whose daughter Symacho Izates married, as well as the rulers of other small kingdoms on the periphery of the Parthian sphere of influence.
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 Tomb of the Kings (BiblePlaces.com)
Two large stone sarcophagi were also found in the tomb that looters had missed.
Adiabene, Jewish Kingdom of Mesopotamia (The Khazaria Info Center) A lengthy article placing Queen Helene in her historical context.
Tomb of the Kings (Petra Fine Art) A steel engraving by William Henry Bartlett.
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 The Parthian period (
Adiabene had Arbela as its capital, and farther north was a province called Beth Nuhadra in Aramaic, which seems to have been governed by a general who was directly responsible to the Parthian king, because this province bore the brunt of Roman invasions.
Adiabene, as well as the entire Tigris-Euphrates basin of northern Mesopotamia, was incorporated as a province into the Roman Empire.
In Mesopotamia, in particular, the influence of Jewish monotheism, with the beginning of rabbinic schools and the organization of the community under a leader, the exilarch (resh galuta in Aramaic), must have had a significant influence on the local population.
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