Withdrawn: Rouweyha (duplicate)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Adam Prins
Creators: Adam Prins
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 03, 2026 05:21 PM
tags:
UWHS
Duplicate of https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668355
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/errata/674925422
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settlement, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis, church, monastery (deprecated)
Pleiades
Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011 as part of the "Ancient Villages of Northern Syria" under criteria iii, iv, and v of UNESCO's World Heritage List Operational Guidelines.
Specific archaeological components include:
- Ruins of a large Basilica with a tower
- The Byzantine Bizzos Church, named after its founder
- The church is considered to be the first (6th century) example of the use of transverse ribs crossing the main nave in order to reinforce it.
- Several tombs, one of which is in the form of a classical temple.
- Numerous residential buildings
Adam Prins, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Withdrawn: Rouweyha (duplicate): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/errata/674925422> [accessed: 08 October 2026]
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