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Monastery of Mor Awgin on Mount Izla, 1909

Place: Tur Abdin · today Türkiye
Date: 1909

General view from above of the Syriac Orthodox monastery of Mor Awgin (Mar Augen) on the hillside of Mount Izla near Nusaybin, looking out over the plain. Bell captioned it "Mar Augen - from the W"; 19 May 1909.

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Gertrude Bell · CC BY-SA 4.0

Monastery of Mor Awgin on Mount Izla, 1909

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