Emmaus/Nicopolis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: B. Isaac
Creators: B. Isaac
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 11, 2023 09:24 PM
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History
An ancient settlement of Judea that is mentioned in numerous ancient sources including the Gospel of Luke. Now situated within the modern Canada Park in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the site was known in modern times as Imwas and was populated until 1967.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687891
31.839295, 34.989428
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640)
- DARMC location 18415 (330 BC - AD 640)
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settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 70 F2 Emmaus/Nicopolis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Imwas
B. Isaac, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Emmaus/Nicopolis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687891> [accessed: 08 December 2023]
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