This article is about the historic site in central Syria. For Ismaili fortress village in Syria, see al-Rusafa, Syria. For places in Iraq, see Al-Rusafa.
Resafa (Arabic: الرصافة, romanized: Reṣafa), sometimes spelled Rusafa, and known in the Byzantine era as Sergiopolis (Greek: Σεργιούπολις or Σεργιόπολις, lit.'city of Saint Sergius') and briefly as Anastasiopolis (Αναστασιόπολις, lit.'city of Anastasius'), was a city located in the Roman province of Euphratensis, in modern-day Syria. It is an archaeological site situated southwest of the city of Raqqa and the Euphrates.
Procopius describes at length the ramparts and buildings erected there by Justinian.[1] The walls of Resafa, which are still well preserved, are over 1600 feet in length and about 1000 feet in width; round or square towers were erected about every hundred feet; there are also ruins of a church with three apses.
Resafa (Arabic: الرصافة, romanized: Reṣafa), sometimes spelled Rusafa, and known in the Byzantine era as Sergiopolis (Greek: Σεργιούπολις or Σεργιόπολις...
Arabia. The city of Resafa, which became a bishop's see, took the name Sergiopolis and preserved his relics in a fortified basilica. Resafa was improved by...
and Russian air support, which resulted in the recapture of the city of Resafa, and the capture of many oil fields in Ar-Raqqah province, including various...
thus coming close to ISIL-held Resafa. During 18 June, the Syrian Army captured the last two villages on the road to Resafa. Later that day, an F/A-18 Super...
weakening as Suleiman had chosen Ramla as his residence and later Hisham chose Resafa. Following the murder of the latter in 743, the Caliphate of the Umayyads—which...
the curtailment of military expansion. Hisham established his court at Resafa in northern Syria, which was closer to the Byzantine border than Damascus...
desert near Palmyra Oasis near Al-Sukhnah Camels in the desert near Raqqa Resafa ruins southwest of Raqqa and the Euphrates. Rocks, unidentified location...
was supposed to be a copy of the Basilica of St Sergius at Sergiopolis (Resafa), in the middle Euphrates, so that the Arabs would not have to travel so...
preserves a letter sent by Khosrau II to the shrine of Saint Sergius in Resafa. One dated to 592/593 includes the following passage: "At the time when...
Orthodox Churches Soldiers, infantrymen, archers Sergius and Bacchus 306 Resafa and Barbalissos in Mesopotamia Assyrian Church of the East, Catholic Church...
Orthodox saints Sergius and Bacchus were supposedly martyred in the city of Resafa in Euphratensis, and the city was later renamed Sergiopolis. Other cities...
legends about the etymology of the name Rozafa, scholars have linked it with Resafa, the place where Saint Sergius died. Shkodra and the surrounding area have...
Anastasioupolis-Peritheorion, a former town near Amaxades, Thrace, Greece Resafa, Syria, also known as Sergiopolis This disambiguation page lists articles...
road between Damascus, Palmyra and the temporary seat of the caliphate Resafa, al-Ruha'. In 770-1 (155 AH), the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur made the decision...
of a monastery bearing his name, Dayr Dawud, in northern Syria, between Resafa and Ithriya. Prior to becoming the Salihid king and phylarch, Dawud was...
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