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Sarepta
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Sarepta (near modern Sarafand, Lebanon) was a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast between Sidon and Tyre, also known biblically as Zarephath. It became a bishopric, which faded, and remains a double (Latin and Maronite) Catholic titular see.
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- Ancient site.name
- Sarepta
- Ancient site.map_type
- Lebanon
- Ancient site.map_size
- 250
- Ancient site.location
- Lebanon
- Ancient site.region
- South Governorate
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- Country
- Lebanon
- Located in
- Sidon District
- Image
- Sarepta April 27th 1839 - David Roberts, R.A. LCCN2002717517 (cropped).jpg
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- Sarepta, Libanon
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Ecclesiastical history
- Titular sees
- Sarepta of the Maronites
- Sarepta of the Romans
- Archaeology
- Other uses of the name
- See also
- References
- Sources
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Sarepta (near modern Sarafand, Lebanon) was a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast between Sidon and Tyre, also known biblically as Zarephath. It became a bishopric, which faded, and remains a double (Latin and Maronite) Catholic titular see.
Most of the objects by which Phoenician culture is characterised are those that have been recovered scattered among Phoenician colonies and trading posts; such carefully excavated colonial sites are in Spain, Sicily, Sardinia and Tunisia. The sites of many Phoenician cities, like Sidon and Tyre, by contrast, are still occupied, unavailable to archaeology except in highly restricted chance sites, usually much disturbed. Sarepta is the exception, the one Phoenician city in the heartland of the culture that has been unearthed and thoroughly studied.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sarepta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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