Viransehir

Viransehir is a market town serving a cotton-developing zone of Sanliurfa Province, in southeastern Turkey, 93 km east of Sanliurfa city and 53 km north-west of the Syrian fringe at Ceylanpinar. In Late Antiquity, it was known as Constantina or Constantia by the Romans and Byzantines, and Tella by the nearby Assyrian/Syriac population, but is today occupied dominatingly by ethnic Kurds and Arabs. The name Viransehir, gets from Kurdish Weransar meaning the demolished city and it has to be sure been annihilated more than once over the span of history. The city might be the site of Antiochia in Mesopotamia.

As indicated by the Byzantine history specialist John Malalas, the city was worked by the Roman Emperor Constantine I on the site of previous Maximianopolis, which had been devastated by a Persian assault and a seismic tremor. Amid the following two centuries, it was a critical area in the Roman/Byzantine Near East, assuming a urgent job in the Roman Persian Wars of the sixth century as the seat of the dux Mesopotamiae. It was likewise a priestly district, suffragan of Edessa. Jacob Baradaeus was conceived close to the city and was a priest in an adjacent monastery. The city was caught by the Arabs in 639.