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Holy Valley

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 Feb 24, 2023 12:05 AM — History

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The Qadisha valley is one of the most important early Christian monastic settlements in the world. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/657612457

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
34.2581385, 35.9841445

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Representative Locations:
- location of the Holy Valley (AD 300 - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
- location of Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab) (modern)

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Holy Valley makes connections with:

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Holy Valley receives connections from:

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Place type:
settlement, forest

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Holy Valley: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/657612457> [accessed: 22 January 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/657612457 |title=Places: 657612457 (Holy Valley) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=January 22, 2025 4:57 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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