Sebastia, State of Palestine

Sebastia

Sebastia, State of Palestine connects to 2100 places across 10 topics through 31 Bunkabop connections, with history as the dominant topic. Its strongest overlaps are with Jerusalem, Egypt, and Syria. Herod the Great renamed the city Sebastia in honor of Augustus, and the modern village name preserves the Roman-period name of Sebaste. Other threads cover Byzantine rule, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank.