Qal’at Sem’an/Church of Saint Simeon Stylites
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/336554371
36.332985082, 36.8436873181
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Church of Saint Simeon Stylites (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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church, ruin
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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:
- Most likely the oldest surviving Byzantine church in the world, dating to the 5th century AD.
Adam Prins, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Tom Elliott, 'Qal’at Sem’an/Church of Saint Simeon Stylites: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/336554371> [accessed: 10 December 2024]
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