It's already documented but just amazing to see how real it is. The gemara's mentioning (Pesach' 3a) of R' Yehuda ben Beteira's dwelling in נציבין is still an actual city in Turkey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusaybin (Interesting that Wikipedia also notes the syriac name is soba)
In the book סבוב ר' פתחיה (which I downloaded through the gracious resource of http://www.seforimonline.org/ ) he mentions his travels there and documents a synagogue of ריב"ב and two synagogues built by Ezra HaSofer!!! That would be awesome to go to the city of Nusaybin and see it one day.
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