Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas)' has mentioned 'Byzantine' in the following places:
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| It is considered to be the original location of the Baptism of Jesus and the ministry of John the Baptist and has been venerated as such since at least the Byzantine period. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Names 1.1 Bethany 1.2 Bethabara 1.3 Al-Maghtas 2 Geography 3 Religious significance 3.1 Israelites' crossing of the Jordan 3.2 Prophet Elijah 3.3 Baptism of Jesus 3.3.1 Historicity 4 History and archaeology 4.1 Pre-Roman settlement 4.2 Roman and Byzantine periods 4.3 Early Muslim period 4.4 Mamluk and Ottoman periods 4.5 Rediscovery after 1994 and tourism 5 Features 5.1 Tell el-Kharrar or Elijah's Hill and the baptismal pools 5.2 Bankside area (Zor) 5.3 Hermitages 5.4 Tombs 6 UNESCO involvement 7 Site management 8 See also 9 References 10 External links | WIKI |
| It follows the New York and Moscow uncials, corrected forms of Ephraemi and Athos, along with uncial fragments from St Petersburg, Paris, minuscule 1, and family 13, backed up by Eusebius, Cyril, some Byzantine texts and lectionaries, and the Curetonian Old Syriac, Aramaic Peshitta, Armenian, and Georgian manuscripts, among others),[13] ". | WIKI |
| Roman and Byzantine periods[edit] | WIKI |
| In the 5th century, in commemoration, a Byzantine monastery was erected here. | WIKI |
| The archaeologists have named it the "Monastery of Rhetorios" after a name from a Byzantine mosaic inscription. | WIKI |
| The main Christian archaeological finds from the Byzantine and possibly even Roman period indicated that the initial venerated pilgrimage site was on the east bank, but by the beginning of the 6th century the focus had moved onto the more accessible west bank of the river. | WIKI |
| During the Byzantine period the site was a popular pilgrimage centre. | WIKI |
| The Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem in 614, river floodings, earthquakes and the Muslim Siege of Jerusalem (636xe2x80x93637) put an end to Byzantine building activity on the east bank of the Jordan, particularly in the Wadi al-Kharrar area. | WIKI |
| The Muslim conquest put an end to Byzantine building activity on the east bank of the Jordan River, but several of the Byzantine structures remained in use during the Early Islamic period. | WIKI |
| In the 13th century an Orthodox monastery was built over remnants of an earlier Byzantine predecessor,[1] but how long it lasted is not known. | WIKI |
| A small chapel dedicated to St. Mary of Egypt, a hermit from the Byzantine period, was built during the 19th century and was also destroyed in the 1927 earthquake. | WIKI |
| Archaeological excavations at the site of the 1990s have revealed religious edifices of Roman and Byzantine period which include "churches and chapels, a monastery, caves used by hermits and pools", which were venues of baptisms. | WIKI |
| These tombs are of the Byzantine and early Islamic periods. | WIKI |