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Roman Fort Il Habbat

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Al Ḩarākī
  • geo:35.638432,36.83041
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • 526 / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=69673

Annotations

The Church of the Archangels at Fa'lul was a circular dome situated north of the village. Thanks to the inscription is known that this church was built in 526 AD.

Obrazy dla Grace of God! Chapel of the Archangels built by the most glorious Diogenes. In the year 838

Sources:

  1. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 164-166
  2. H.C. Butler eds., Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 3, Sect. B; 2) — 1909, pp.108 ff
  3. idem: Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 2, Sect. B ; 2) — 1908, p. 95f

Nearby

Falul

Byzantine settlement.

Maarata (2 km)

Ma`rata. Maarrata.Khirbat Ma‘arrātah. Byzantine village. Marata.

Maarata (2 km)

Ma`arata. Early Christian church.


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