The Significance of Tinnis as a Prominent Christian Center.

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Abstract

This paper aims to highlight the significant religious status of Tinnis as a prominent Christian hub .Tinnis is an island located
in Lake Manzalah .The island houses an archaeological site known as“ Tell Tinnis ”,the ruins of the Islamic city“ Tinnis ”,which
was once prosperous during the Middle Ages .Tinnis was a diocese“ ,the bishopric of Thennesus ”,under the Patriarchate of
Alexandria .Classical sources and prior research focused on Tinnis in the Islamic Middle Ages ,and little is known about Tinnis
as a Christian city .A theoretical descriptive approach has been applied to understand if Tinnis was religiously prominent .The
study emphasized the Christian religious significance of Tinnis .It was represented at the councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon in
the fifth century ,and it was depicted in the mosaics of the churches in Jordan ,and on medieval maps .Tinnis has been listed as
one of the Catholic Church’s titular bishoprics since the nineteenth century.

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