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Qal’at Sem’an/Church of Saint Simeon Stylites

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Adam Prins
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jul 18, 2024 03:34 PM — History
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An ancient church, located in modern Syria. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011 as part of the "Ancient Villages of Northern Syria."

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/336554371

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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.

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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: 04 November 2024] 

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