Zuqnin Monastery

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The Zuqnin Monastery was an ancient Christian monastery north of Diyarbakır (Amida) in what is now Diyarbakır Province in eastern Turkey . John of Ephesus was ordained here in 529 by John of Tella . The Chronicle of Zuqnin was written about this monastery around the year 775 . The library of the monastery came from scholars from the region and contained numerous valuable books by Eusebius , Socrates , John of Ephesus and the Chronicle of Zuqnin.

Individual evidence

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