Historical place profile
Beroia
The ancient city of Aleppo, located in modern Syria, where extensive elements of Hittite, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Ayyubid, and Umayyad architecture are incorporated into the urban fabric of the modern city. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:658409
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:658409
- Place type
- mosque, plaza, settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.199405, 37.162896
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The ancient city of Aleppo, located in modern Syria, where extensive elements of Hittite, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Ayyubid, and Umayyad architecture are incorporated into the urban fabric of the modern city. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.
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 67 E4 Beroia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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