Babylon Fortress
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jul 08, 2025 11:24 AM
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History
The so-called "Babylon Fortress" in Coptic Cairo dates to the late third or early fourth century CE. Tradition holds that the Roman emperor Diocletian built the fortress in order to defend the canal built by Trajan that linked the Nile River to the Red Sea. Two churches - the Church of St. George and the Hanging Church - were later built within the footprint of the fortress.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/758514868
30.0059161262, 31.2298905272
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Roman Tower (AD 200 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Babylon Fortress (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Babylon Fortress located at Babylon (unspecified date range)
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Babylon Fortress: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/758514868> [accessed: 12 April 2026]
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