Resaina - Resaena, Resina modern Ras elAin was a Meopotamian city near the sources of the Aborras/Chaboras. The site has been inhabited since at least the Neolithic age (c. 8,000 BC). Today settlement existed since ca 2000 BC. Later known as the ancient Aramean city of Sikkan, the Roman city of RhesainaAfter its restoration and fortification by Theodosius, it was called Theodosiopolis. The Sasanians destroyed the city twice in 578 and 580 before rebuilding it.
There was a mint manufactured coins 1
See:
- Harry Thurston Peck Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898, sv. Resaina
- David, and Joan Oates. "Ain Sinu: A Roman Frontier Post in Northern Iraq." Iraq 21, no. 2 (1959), pp. 207-242
References
- ↑David, and Joan Oates, 1959, p. 214,237, 239