Bethabara
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.T. Parker Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S.T. Parker Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 13, 2018 08:27 PM
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History
Bethabara, in modern Jordan, is an ancient site connected with John the Baptist. Bethabara is also attested on the sixth century A.D. "Madaba Map".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697641
31.838763, 35.547689
- DARMC location 6901 (AD 300 - AD 640)
- DARE Location (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Bethabara (AD 300 - AD 640)
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church, monastery
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 71 B2 Bethabara
Bethabara may be associated with the site of Al-Maghtas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Wadi el-Kharrar
S.T. Parker, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Bethabara: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697641> [accessed: 18 January 2020]
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