Historical place profile
Gerra
Gerra (modern Anjar, Lebanon) was a stronghold built under the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid ibn Abdel Malek in the eighth century AD. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:678160
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:678160
- Place type
- fort, settlement
- Coordinates
- 33.731106, 35.938332
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Gerra (modern Anjar, Lebanon) was a stronghold built under the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid ibn Abdel Malek in the eighth century AD. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.
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 69 C2 Gerra
Source and reuse
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Research path
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