Shams el-Din
The ancient settlement of Shams el-Din in Egypt's Kharga Oasis, which contains a necropolis and 4th century AD church.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894410373
24.610418, 30.597586
- Church (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Shams el-Din (unspecified date range)
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- Shams el-Din connection Exotero (Oasis) (unspecified date range)
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settlement, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis, church, monastery
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Pleiades
Reference:
Vivian, Cassandra. The Western Desert of Egypt, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2000. pp. 84.
Nate Nagy, Bruno Bazzani, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Shams el-Din: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2013 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894410373> [accessed: 21 October 2018]
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