Kafr Aqareb
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Adam Prins
Creators: Adam Prins
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 07, 2024 04:23 PM
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An ancient place, located in modern Syria, with remains of Roman praetorium, a temple and grottoes for pagan worship, a Byzantine basilica, and a large communal reservoir. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011 as part of the "Ancient Villages of Northern Syria."
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/587486980
36.03459225, 36.44201335
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location: Kafr Aqareb (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 4 meters.
- OSM location of Kafr Aqareb (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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ruin, settlement, 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:
- A praetorium of the Roman headquarters
- A temple and grottoes for pagan worship
- A Byzantine basilica
- A large communal reservoir
- The surroundings contain vestiges of the Roman road that led to Antioch
Adam Prins, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kafr Aqareb: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/587486980> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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