Mar Behnam

a Pleiades place resource

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The Mar Behnam Monastery may have been established as early as the fourth century CE. It was a Syriac Catholic monastery located in the village Khidr Ily in northern Iraq.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/777829213

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.1382916, 43.4055445

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Mar Behnam Monastery (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Mar Behnam Monastery (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)

Mar Behnam makes connections with:

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Mar Behnam receives connections from:

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Place type:
monastery

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See Further:

Wikipedia (English) Mar Behnam Monastery

Related:

Wikidata Mar Behnam Monastery (Q934579)

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Mar Behnam: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/777829213> [accessed: 17 February 2026]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/777829213 |title=Places: 777829213 (Mar Behnam) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=February 17, 2026 4:40 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}