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Abgar VIII of
Edessa, also known as
Abgar the Great, was a
Syriac king of
Osroene. It was maintained also that Abgar the Great should be regarded as
Abgar IX, however, according to A. R. Bellinger and C. B. Welles, the assertion is incorrect.
Abgar the Great was most remembered for his reputed conversion to
Christianity in about
200 AD.
Upon his death in
212 AD,Abgar the Great was succeeded by his son
Abgar IX surnamed Severus in contemporary Roman fashion. Though Abgar Severus was summoned with his son to
Rome in
213 AD and murdered at the orders of
Caracalla. A year later Caracalla ended the independence of Osroene and incorporated it as a province into Roman Empire.
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