 The community fled Urfa in 1896, eventually relocating to Jerusalem and Tiberias.According to several traditions, Urfa is the Biblical Ur Kaśdim (Ur of the Chaldees, or City of the Chaldees), though most archaeologists establish the location of Ur Kaśdim as being identical with Ur in modern-day Iraq.When Alexander the Great conquered Urfa, he renamed it Ruha.