Menurut Pliny, terdapat empat suku di wilayah Adiabene: Orontes, Alani, Azones, dan Silices.[8] Berdasarkan catatan Josephus, terdapat pula orang-orang Yahudi.
^Richard Nelson Frye, 1984, The history of ancient Iran: Volume 3, Bagian 7 - Halaman 222
^"The Chronicle of Arbela"(PDF). Diarsipkan dari asli(PDF) tanggal 2004-04-28. In 115, the Romans invaded Adiabene and named it Assyria.;
^The Biblical Geography of Central Asia: With a General Introduction, Oleh Ern. Frid. Car. Rosenmüller. Halaman 122.
^In Memory of Rabbi and Mrs. Carl Friedman: Studies on the Problem of Tannaim in Babylonia (ca. 130-160 C. E.) Pengarang: Jacob Neusner Sumber: Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 30 (1962), hlm. 79-127.
^Ammianus Marcellinus, another fourth-century writer. In his excursus on the Sasanian Empire he describes Assyria in such a way that there is no mistaking he is talking about lower Mesopotamia (Amm. Marc. XXIII. 6. 15). For Assyria he lists three major cities-Babylon, Ctesiphon and Seleucia (Amm. Marc. xxIII. 6. 23), whereas he refers to Adiabene as 'Assyria priscis temporibus vocitata' (Amm. Marc. xxIII. 6. 20).
idem, Wars of the Jews. ii. 19, § 2; iv. 9, § 11; v. 2, § 2; 3, § 3; 4, § 2; 6, § 1, noting that Josephus probably got his information from Adiabene Jews in Jerusalem (Von Gutschmid, Kleine Schriften, iii. 4).