The speakers of a language now misnamed Hattic (again by Victorian English gentlemen), and Hurrian were living in that area.
According to [http://sebomenoi.org/index.php/Petrine SabianismPetrine]s, Anush Uthra ordered that a messenger be assigned to each of the 72 nations. Addai (Thaddeus) was the one of the Seventy Disciples who was sent to Edessa. Addai was one of the 6 disciples answerable directly to the apostle Thomas. The language of the area was supposed to have been an agglutinative language related to Elamite.
