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🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Byzantine to Present (Justinian–continuous) · Byzantine Greek Orthodox / Bedouin Jebeleya
Saint Catherine Monastery (548–565 CE Justinian I) is world's oldest continuously operating Christian monastery at 1585 m foot of Mount Sinai intra Wadi el-Deir.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Temple complex
Medieval Solomonic to Gondarine (1313–1748 CE) · Ethiopian Orthodox / Solomonic / Amhara-Tigray
Lake Tana (3,000 km², source of Blue Nile) hosts 37 medieval island and peninsula monasteries (14th–17th c) with circular thatched churches, vivid murals and parchment libraries.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Iron Age to 1239 CE (Latgalian principality) · Latgalian / Orthodox Rus'
Latgalian hillfort capital of the Orthodox principality of Jersika (Gercike) at Daugava's Tsargrad bend, a 75×100 m plateau 32 m above river with 12 m rampart, church foundations and 13th-c…
