Edited sentence: A diocese was founded around the middle of the thirteenth century to the north of the ‡ur `Abdin for the town of esna d’Kifa, whose earliest-known bishop, Eliya, was present at the enthronement of Makkikha II in 1257.Aoustan d’Arzun and Beth Moksaye were also suffragan dioceses in the fifth century, and it is also possible that Raqqa, which had an East Syrian bishop in 1091, was briefly attached to the province of Nisibis.The diocese of amanon is last mentioned in 1265, and the diocese of Qarta and Adarma at the end of the twelfth century, but it is possible that these dioceses too were still in existence at the beginning of the fourteenth century.The metropolitan province of Nisibis had a number of suffragan dioceses at different periods, including the dioceses of Arzun, Beth Rahimaï, Beth Qardu (later renamed amanon), Beth Zabdaï, Qube d’Arzun, Balad, Sinjar, Armenia, Harran, Maiperqa† (with Amid and Mardin), Resh `Aïna, Gaßlona and Qarta and Adarma.The only dioceses definitely in existence at the end of the thirteenth century were Armenia (whose bishops sat at ˘ala† on the northern shore of Lake Van), Sinjar, Balad, Arzun, and Maiperqa† (whose bishop seems also to have been responsible for Amid and Mardin)