Aphekou Pyrgos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: B. Isaac Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: B. Isaac Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 19, 2025 05:05 PM
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History
Now occupied by the ruins of a 19th-century fortified manor house built atop and with spolia from a Crusader-era fortress, this hill and environs were in antiquity the site of a fortified village destroyed by the Romans in the first century but subsequently repopulated. Today a national park, the area was formerly occupied by the Palestinian village of Majdal Yaba, which was depopulated in the 1940s.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687828
32.0771954173, 34.9592663776
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Migdal Tzedek National Park (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Aphekou Pyrgos (330 BC - AD 640)
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- Mirabel Fortress succeeds Aphekou Pyrgos (unspecified date range)
settlement (fortified), settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 70 F1 Aphekou Pyrgos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Migdal Afeq/Medjel Yaba
B. Isaac, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aphekou Pyrgos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687828> [accessed: 23 June 2025]
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