Edessa tana da mazaunan kusan 10,000. Sauran gundumar sun fi yawan sansanonin. Yankin gundumar ya fadada daga Antakiya a yamma zuwa fadin Yufiretis a gabas a mafi girmansa. Har ila yau, sau da yawa yana mamaye ƙasa har zuwa arewacin Armenia. A kudu da gabas akwai biranen Musulmai masu ƙarfi na Aleppo da Mosul, da Jazira ( arewacin Iraki). Mazaunan sun kasance mafi yawan mutanen Syriac Orthodox da Armenian Orthodox Kiristoci, tare da wasu Kiristocin Orthodox na Girka da Larabawa Musulmai. Ko da yake yawancin Latin sun kasance ƙananan, akwai Katolika Katolika.
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