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	Tur Abdin: Deir-es-Salib Monastery, general view Tur Abdin: Deir-es-Salib Monastery (Bell Arch.N029 NcU)
	This 1909 photo by Gertrude Bell gives a panoramic view of the Deir-es-Salib Monastery at Tur Abdin in southeastern Turkey. The Tur Abdin region, located near the Syrian border  contains a number of Syriac Christian monasteries and churches which date from the 4th-6th c. AD. Many of these have unique architectural features combining Late Roman building methods with Byzantine elements. Many of these sites were abandoned due to persecutions of Christians. Some have recently been reopened. Gertrude Bell first reported the sites in detail in 1909 The Gertrude Bell Archive is at Newcastle University in England.. .
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