"Basilica" of San Vitale
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Contributors:
Noah Kaye
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 29, 2021 09:02 AM
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History
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A church (but not a basilica) in Ravenna, Italy, established by Bishop Ecclesius in 526 AD and consecrated ca. 547 AD.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/73180225
44.4205157, 12.196211
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the "Basilica" of San Vitale (AD 300 - AD 1453)
- Imagery location Basilica of San Vitale (AD 300 - AD 1453)
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- Basilica of San Vitale (English, modern)
- "Basilica" of San Vitale located at Ravenna (AD 300 - AD 640)
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church, church, monastery (deprecated)
Pleiades
Apse contains famous mosaics portraits of Justinian I and Theodora.
The basilica was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996.
Coordinates verified in Google Earth at an eye altitude of 219m.
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Noah Kaye, '"Basilica" of San Vitale: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/73180225> [accessed: 27 September 2023]
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