Historical place profile
Aphekou Pyrgos
Now occupied by the ruins of a 19th-century fortified manor house built atop and with spolia from a Crusader-era fortress, this hill and environs were in antiquity the site of a fortified village destroyed by the Romans in the first century but subsequently repopulated. Today a national park, the area was formerly occupied by the Palestinian village of Majdal Yaba, which was depopulated in the 1940s.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:687828
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:687828
- Place type
- fortified-settlement, settlement
- Coordinates
- 32.077195, 34.959266
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Now occupied by the ruins of a 19th-century fortified manor house built atop and with spolia from a Crusader-era fortress, this hill and environs were in antiquity the site of a fortified village destroyed by the Romans in the first century but subsequently repopulated. Today a national park, the area was formerly occupied by the Palestinian village of Majdal Yaba, which was depopulated in the 1940s.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 70 F1 Aphekou Pyrgos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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