Gerra
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 14, 2017 12:06 PM
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History
Gerra (modern Anjar, Lebanon) was a stronghold built under the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid ibn Abdel Malek in the eighth century AD. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678160
33.7322222, 35.9336111
- DARMC location 2457 (330 BC - 30 BC)
- location of El Qsour (AD 661 - AD 750)
- Gerra (330 BC - 30 BC)
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settlement, fort, tower
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 69 C2 Gerra
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Mejdel 'Anjar LEB
E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Gerra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678160> [accessed: 28 January 2021]
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