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Elusa

Khalasa

Around 350 Saint Hilarion, the founder of monasticism in Palestine, is said to have worked miracles at Elusa and converted many Saracens, and several Church Fathers describe the town's peculiar pagan cult. Elusa, today's Khalasa, began like Oboda as a Nabataean caravan station and was their northernmost post, at a crossroads on the northern edge of the Negev. Later it became the capital of Palaestina Tertia and boomed in the 5th and 6th centuries, helped by pilgrims bound for Sinai, whose money let its many monasteries build churches.

Fully based on scientific information from TP-Online (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). More on Wikipedia.

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