Lajat: Perbedaan antara revisi

 

==== Periode Bizantium ====

 

Kekuasaan Romawi digantikan oleh [[Kekaisaran Bizantium]] di Siria selama pertengahan abad ke-4 M.<ref name="EI593"/><!-- For the following three centuries, Trachonitis saw a huge uptick in settlement and building activity.<ref name="EI593"/> Among the major Byzantine-era settlements were Bosor (modern [[Busra al-Harir]]), Zorava, Jirrin, Sur, Deir al-Juwani, Rimea, [[Umm al-Zaytun]], Shaqra and [[Harran, as-Suwayda|Harran]].<ref name="EI593"/><ref>Trombley, pp. 365–371.</ref> There are at least thirty sites in the Lajat with ruins tracing back to the Byzantine era.<ref name="EI593"/> The Byzantine era saw the expansion of Christianity in the regions surrounding the Lajat, but there archaeological evidence indicates that Christianity only affected a few Lajat villages, particularly those along its southwestern edges,<ref name="Trombley359"/> until the mid 6th century.<ref name="Trombley367">Trombley, p. 367.</ref> One of the earliest known Christian communities in Trachonitis was Sur (ancient name unknown), which had a Christian edifice dated to 458.<ref>Trombley, p. 366.</ref>