Bara [album]
02 July 2010 | Comments: 0 |
Bara (Arabic: بارة) also called Al-Bara is one of the former "Dead Cities" in northwestern Syria. It is located in the Jebel Riha, approx. 65 km north from Hama and approx. 80 km southwest from Aleppo.
The settlement was established in the fourth century at an important trade route between Antioch and Apamea. Due to good location and excellent conditions to produce wine and olive oil it flourished in the 5th and 6th centuries. When Muslims conquered the region and trading routes (...)
Suwayda [album]
27 June 2010 | Comments: 0 |
As Suwayda (also Sweida; Arabic: السويداء) is a mainly Druze city located in southwestern Syria, close to the border with Jordan.
It is the capital of Muhafazat as Suwayda, one of Syria's 14 governorates, bordering Jordan in the South and the governorates of Daraa in the West and Rif Dimashq in the North and East.
Shahba [album]
27 June 2010 | Comments: 0 |
Shahba (Arabic: شهبا), known in Late Antiquity as Philippopolis, is a city located 87 km south of Damascus in the Jabal el Druze in As-Suwayda Governorate of Syria, but formerly in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.
Salkhad [album]
27 June 2010 | Comments: 0 |
Salkhad (Arabic: صلخد) a Syrian city in the As Suwayda governorate, southern Syria. It is the capital of Salkhad District, one of the governorate's three districts. It has a population of 15,000 inhabitants.
It is located at 1350 metres above sea level in the central Jabal el Druze highlands.
Hama [album]
28 May 2010 | Comments: 0 |
Hama (ancient Hamath; Arabic: حماة Ḥamāh, "fortress") is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in central Syria north of Damascus. It is the provincial capital of the Hama Governorate. The city is the location of the historical city Hamath. The population of Hama is 410,000, and the city is the fifth-largest in Syria, after Damascus, Aleppo, Hims and Latakia.
Hama is an important agricultural and industrial center in Syria, with 3,680 square kilometres (1,420 sq mi), over (...)
Apamea [album]
28 May 2010 | Comments: 0 |
Apamea (Greek: Απάμεια, Apameia; Arabic: آفاميا, Afamia) was a treasure city and stud-depot of the Seleucid kings, was capital of Apamene, on the right bank of the Orontes River. (Steph. B. s. v.; Strabo xvi. p. 752; Ptolemy v. 15. § 19; Festus Avienus, v. 1083; Anton. Itin.; Hierocles). Its site is found about 55 km (34 mi) to the northwest of Hama, Syria, overlooking the Ghab valley. Previously known as Pharmake, it was fortified and enlarged by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC, who (...)
