'cold') in 969 (AG 1280) by the Syriac Orthodox patriarch John VII Sarigta following the invitation of the Roman Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas.
[4] According to the Chronicle of Michael the Syrian, the patriarch and the emperor had agreed that the former would come with his co-religionists and establish his residence in the region of Malatya and its environs on the condition that they received an imperial guarantee of religious tolerance.
[7] John VIII bar Abdoun was residing at the Monastery of Bārid when he was detained and placed under house arrest at Malatya by the krites Chrysoberges in 1028.
[11] Iwannis III's successor Dionysius VI (r. 1088–1090) was archimandrite of the Monastery of Bārid prior to his accession as patriarch.
[13] The monastery was likely located on the Berit Daği near the River Giḥun and the village of Zeytun (today called Süleymanlı).