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Rouweyha

a Pleiades place resource

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 Feb 05, 2024 09:44 AM History
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An ancient place, located in modern Syria, with remains of an ancient basilica, residential buildings, and several tombs. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011 as part of the "Ancient Villages of Northern Syria."

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674925422

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tomb, settlement, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis, church, monastery (deprecated)

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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:

    • Ruins of a large Basilica with a tower
    • The Byzantine Bizzos Church, named after its founder
      • The church is considered to be the first (6th century) example of the use of transverse ribs crossing the main nave in order to reinforce it.
    • Several tombs, one of which is in the form of a classical temple.
    • Numerous residential buildings

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Adam Prins, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Rouweyha: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674925422> [accessed: 22 December 2024]

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