Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1031 Edessa ya ba da shi ga Byzantines a ƙarƙashin George Maniakes ta gwamnansa na Larabawa. Larabawa sun sake kama shi, sannan kuma Helenawa, Armeniya, daular Seljuq (1087), Crusaders (1098), waɗanda suka kafa gundumar Edessa a can kuma suka riƙe garin har zuwa 1144, lokacin da Imad ad-Din Zengi ya sake kama shi, kuma an kashe yawancin mazaunanta tare da babban bishop na Latin (duba Siege of Edessa
) Ya ce: Mun san waɗannan abubuwan musamman ta wurin masanin tarihin Armeniya Matthew, wanda aka haife shi a Edessa. A shekara ta 1144 birnin yana da yawan mutanen Armeniya 47,000. A cikin 1146, 'yan Salibiyya sun sake kwace garin na ɗan gajeren lokaci kuma sun rasa bayan' yan kwanaki. A cikin kalmomin Steven Runciman, "an kori dukan Kiristoci zuwa hijira [kuma t] babban birni, wanda ke da'awar cewa shi ne mafi tsufa na Kirista a duniya, an bar shi babu kowa kuma ya zama kango, kuma bai sake farfaɗowa ba har zuwa yau".