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Yeha

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Jun 11, 2024 10:58 AM — History

tags: UWHS Submitted

Ancient Yeha was located in what is now the northern Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Yeha was likely a capital of the pre-Aksumite kingdom of D'mt. The Cultural Heritage of Yeha has been submitted for consideration to UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/269070833

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
14.285985378, 39.0190038097

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Yeha (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Yeha makes connections with:

None

Yeha receives connections from:

Yeha Temple located at Yeha (unspecified date range)

Place type:
unknown

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The site was submitted for consideration by UNESCO for inclusion as a World Heritage site under the grouping of "The Cultural Heritage of Yeha" in 2020.

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Yeha: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/269070833> [accessed: 22 November 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/269070833 |title=Places: 269070833 (Yeha) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=November 22, 2024 6:32 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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