Serjilla

Serjilla
سيرجيلة
	Ruins of Serjilla
	Shown within Syria
Location	Idlib Governorate, Syria
Coordinates	35°40′12″N 36°34′08″E / 35.670°N 36.569°E
Type	settlement
Part of	Dead Cities
History
Founded	ca. 473 AD
Abandoned	Seventh century AD
Cultures	Byzantine
Site notes
Excavation dates	1899—present
Condition	ruined
Ownership	Public
Public access	Yes

Serjilla (Arabic: سيرجيلة) is one of the best preserved of the Dead Cities in northwestern Syria, containing about 700 sites. It is located in the Jebel Riha, approximately 65 km north from Hama and 80 km southwest from Aleppo, very close to ruins of another "Dead City", Bara.^[1]

The settlement arose in a natural basin and prospered from cultivating of grapes and olives. The presence of a bath complex indicates the wealth of the community. Serjilla, a Byzantine settlement, was built in 473.^[2] Thomas Joseph Shanan considered Serjilla as "Christian Pompeii".

^ Greenhalgh, Michael (2016). Syria's Monuments: Their Survival and Destruction (Volume 5). Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-33460-1.
^ Fangi, Gabriele (2015). "Documentation of some Cultural Heritage Emergencies in Syria in August 2010 by Spherical Photrammetry". ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 11-5w3: 401–408. Bibcode:2015ISPAn.II5..401F. doi:10.5194/ISPRSANNALS-II-5-W3-401-2015. S2CID 60909416.

[1] Greenhalgh, Michael (2016). Syria's Monuments: Their Survival and Destruction (Volume 5). Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-33460-1.

[2] Fangi, Gabriele (2015). "Documentation of some Cultural Heritage Emergencies in Syria in August 2010 by Spherical Photrammetry". ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 11-5w3: 401–408. Bibcode:2015ISPAn.II5..401F. doi:10.5194/ISPRSANNALS-II-5-W3-401-2015. S2CID 60909416.

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