It was known as Asuristan during this period, and became a main centre of the Church of the East ( now the Assyrian Church of the East ), with a flourishing Syriac ( Assyrian ) Christian culture which exists there to this day.

The Oriental Orthodox communion comprises six groups: Syriac Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Eritrean Orthodox, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church ( India ) and Armenian Apostolic churches.

Samuel Lee, the editor ( 1842 ) and translator ( 1843 ) of the Syriac Theophania thought that the work must have been written " after the general peace restored to the Church by Constantine, and before either the ' Praeparatio ,' or the ' Demonstratio Evengelica ,' was written.

He is especially beloved in the Syriac Orthodox Church.

Ephrem is popularly credited as the founder of the School of Nisibis, which in later centuries was the centre of learning of the Syriac Orthodox Church.

** Mar Abhai ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

** Abhai ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

** Syriac Orthodox Church

** Abhai ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

** Aaron the Illustrious ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

This book was quoted directly, and expanded on by Mani, becoming one of the original six Syriac writings of the Manichaean Church.

** Abhai of Hach ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

Assyrians of the Ancient Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church, and Assyrian Church of the East observe a fast called Ba ' uta d-Ninwe or Bo ' utho d-Ninwe ( ܒܥܘܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ ) which means Nineveh's Wish.

He is celebrated on February 28 in the Syriac and Malankara Churches, and with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31.

** Aaron the Illustrious ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

** Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions ( Syriac Orthodox Church )

The Early Christian Church used the Greek texts since Greek was a lingua franca of the Roman Empire at the time, and the language of the Greco-Roman Church ( Aramaic was the language of Syriac Christianity, which used the Targums ).

Among early centers of Christianity a Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible was used by Greek speakers ( Aramaic Targums were used by Aramaic speakers such as the Syriac Orthodox Church ).

An Aramaic Bible is also used in the Syriac Church ( see Peshitta ).

Given this, and Jerome's familiarity with Semitic philology and the immediate region, Capper concludes that the " house of affliction " / " poor-house " meaning as documented by Jerome and in the Syriac New Testament usage is correct, and that this meaning relates to the use of the village as a centre for caring for the sick and aiding the destitute and pilgrims to Jerusalem.

Not only that, he consecrated his successor Mar Thoma VI without any assistance from foreign bishops, thus severing all allegiance to foreign bishops. Until Mar Thoma V, Malankara Church followed almost entirely East Syriac language, liturgy and practices.

This led to a rift with the church hierarchy ; Malpan's nephew was consecrated as metropolitan bishop by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch in 1842, establishing what would later be known as the Mar Thoma Church.

The British Orthodox Church was originally established in 1866 when a Frenchman, Jules Ferrette, was consecrated as a bishop by the Syriac Orthodox Church with the purpose of establishing Oriental Orthodoxy to the West.

A wooden tablet, the ţablîtho, is the liturgical equivalent of the antimins in the churches of Syriac tradition.

It is a 279-cm tall limestone block with text in both Chinese and Syriac, describing the existence of Christian communities in several cities in northern China.

* Syriac Abbreviation Mark, a Unicode control character in the Syriac block

The UTF-8 scripts are those scripts where UTF-8 only requires fewer than three bytes per character ( only one byte for the ASCII-equivalent Basic Latin block, digits and most punctuation marks ) and include: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Thaana, N ' Ko, and the IPA and other Latin-based phonetic alphabets.

These vowelless alphabets are called abjads, currently exemplified in scripts including Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac.

According to one tradition it was Mani himself who invented the unique version of the Syriac script called Manichaean script, which was used in all of the Manichaean works written within the Persian Empire, whether they were in Syriac or Middle Persian, and also for most of the works written within the Uyghur Empire.

In the Aramaic book of Enoch, in the Qumran writings in general, and in the original Syriac section of Manichaean scriptures quoted by Theodore bar Konai, he is called " malka raba de-ikara " ( the great king of glory ).

At the very beginning of the Mongol Empire, around 1204, Genghis Khan defeated the Naimans and captured an Uyghur scribe called Tata Tunga, who then adapted the Uyghur alphabet — a descendant of the Syriac alphabet, via Sogdian — to write Mongol.

The Syriac Orthodox Church, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and the Greek Orthodox Church, as well as the Syriac Catholic Church, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church and all Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Churches, commemorate Saint Clement of Rome ( called in Syriac " Mor Clemis ") on 24 November ; the Russian Orthodox Church commemorates St Clement on 25 November.

A further fragment in Syriac in the British Museum, titled Names of the wives of the patriarchs according to the Hebrew books called Jubilees suggests that there once existed a Syriac translation.

The Syriac Orthodox Book of Hours is called the Shhimo, " simple prayer.

Most of the kings of Osroene are called Abgar or Manu and they were Syriac kings who settled in urban centers.

The Syriac Rite is rooted in the old tradition of both the churches of Jerusalem and Antioch and has ties with the ancient Jewish Berakah and is usually called the Western Syriac Rite.

The main Syriac Liturgy is called the " Anaphora of Saint James " ( brother of the Lord ).

** adherents of the Syriac Orthodox Church, also called West Syrians or Assyrians-Syriacs

** adherents of the Syriac Catholic Church, also called West Syrians or Syriacs

** adherents of the Syriac Maronite Church, also called Maronites, Phoenicians or Syriac-Maronites

The non-Chalcedonians under Severus ultimately established a rival church, which eventually came to be called the Syriac Orthodox Church ( which is a part of the Oriental Orthodox Church ), which has continued to appoint its own Syriac Patriarchs of Antioch.

Later Michael Jarweh was elected Patriarch in 1782 and he again re-entered communion with Rome which caused those that opposed union to separate and form a new ecclesiastical body that today is called the Syriac Orthodox Church.

According to a legend first reported by Eusebius in the 4th century, Syriac King Abgar V Ukāmā was converted by Addai, who was one of the seventy-two disciples, sent to him by " Judas, who is also called Thomas "..

The last Syrian Christians left in 1924 and went to Aleppo ( where they settled down in a place that was later called Hay al-Suryan " The Syriac Quarter ").