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The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan

Note 111 — Chapter X · TWIGS OF A WITHERED EMPIRE (URMI)

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It is a double church really: Mar Sergius and Mar Bacchus: these very popular saints in the East, among whose churches that at Constantinople is the most famous, were Persian martyrs of the fifth century; and the church of Mar Sergius near Urmi claims to mark the site of their martyrdom.

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