Nusaybin

Nusaybin (pronounced [nuˈsajbin]) is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,079 km2, and its population is 115,586 (2022). The city is populated by Kurds of different tribal affiliation. Nisibis was besieged three times by the Sasanian army under Shapur II (r. 309–379) in the first half of the 4th century. The city was part of the Assyrian Empire and the Achaemenid Empire. It was re-founded as a polis named "Antioch on the Mygdonius" by the Seleucid dynasty after the conquests of Alexander the Great. After the defeat of the Romans in Julian's Persian War, Julian's successor Jovian was forced to cede the five Transtigritine provinces to the Persians. As a result of this council, the Church of the East was set up and Nisis became the metropolitan bishop of the city. When the School of Edessa was founded in 489, the city's five scholars migrated to the city and established the Nibis School.