Nusaybin (Nṣibin, later Syriac, Ṣōbā, classical Nisibis)'s a city in Mardin Province, southeastern Turkey populated by Arabs, Assyrian/Syriacs. It's the ancient Mesopotamian city, which Alexander's successors refounded as Antiochia Mygdonia and's mentioned for the first time in Polybius' description of the march of Antiochus I against the Molon (Polybius, V, 51). Greek historian Plutarch suggested that the city was populated by Spartan descendants. The Syriac name for the… (More on Nusaybin)