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The city of Şanlıurfa, modern-day Urfa, is situated in the Taurus Mountains of southern Anatolia, where the east-west highway from Zeugma on the Euphrates to where the Tigris meets with the north-south route from Somaysāṭ. Known also as Edessa in history, the city is also referred to as Admi in Assyrian cuneiform tablets from the 7th century BCE, Ōrhāy in Syriac sources, and as ar-Ruhā in Arabic texts. Its location is important as the city stood along what was once the trade route upon which silk and spices flowed from China and India through to Asia Minor.