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Pelusium Church

Location:

  • Egypt, Baluza
  • geo:31.041988,32.556656
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -15xx / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

PELUSIUM dates back to the late Pharaonic period. Egyptians named it Sena and Per-Amun. During Roman  period it was provincial capital and then later a Christian spiritual center.

See:

  1. Krzysztof Jakubiak, TELL FARAMA (PELUSIUM) REPORT ON THE THIRD AND FOURTH SEASONS, https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/pam/PAM_2005_XVII/270.pdf

Nearby

Pelusium

Place of death of Pompey the Great

Ampfiteater of Pelusium

Ampfiteater of Pelusium

Pelusium Hipodrom

Pelusium Hipodrom


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