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Document Details : Title: Holy Horsemen and Crusader Banners Subtitle: Equestrian Saints in Wall Paintings in Lebanon and Syria Author(s): IMMERZEEL, Mat Journal: Eastern Christian Art Volume: 1 Issue: Date: 2004 Pages: 29-60 DOI: 10.2143/ECA.1.1.516941 Abstract : For centuries the Qalamun, the mountainous area between Damascus and Homs in Syria, has been populated with Byzantine and Syrian Orthodox communities. In a few sanctuaries, wall paintings, unfortunately often damaged, testify to its flourishing Christian culture in the period of teh eleventh to the thirteenth century. |
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