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Holy Valley

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Feb 13, 2025 08:40 PM — History

tags: UWHS

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

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Geohack location of the Holy Valley (AD 300 - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
- UNESCO location of Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab) (modern) accuracy: +/- 500 meters.

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Holy Valley receives connections from:

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Place type:
settlement, forest

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Related:

Wikidata Kadisha Valley (Q29384)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Holy Valley: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/657612457> [accessed: 23 June 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/657612457 |title=Places: 657612457 (Holy Valley) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=June 23, 2025 3:24 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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