Choziba
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).
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Mar 16, 2023 12:38 PM
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History
A desert monastery, founded in the fifth century CE, which was located where the 19th-century Greek Orthodox monastery of Deir Mar Jirys now stands on the north cliffs above the Wadi Qelt/Kelt in the West Bank, nearly 5km west from the center of modern Jericho.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687876
31.8440757, 35.4117778
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of St. George Monastery (AD 1800 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Choziba (AD 300 - AD 640)
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- Deir Mar Jiryis (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Deir Mar Jirys (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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monastery
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 70 G2 Choziba
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Deir Mar Jiryis WBK
B. Isaac, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Choziba: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687876> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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