Idlib [album]
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Idlib (Arabic: ادلب) is a city in northwestern Syria, capital of the Idlib Governorate. The city of Aleppo, which is roughly 60 km. away, has an important economic presence in Idlib. The area around Idlib is very fertile, producing cotton, cereals, olives, figs, grapes, tomatoes, sesame seeds, wheat and almonds. It has an elevation of nearly 600 m. (2000 ft.) above sea level.
The Idlib area is very historically significant, containing many "dead cities" and man-made hills called (...)
Dead Cities - Jebel Riha [album]
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Mount Zāwiya (Arabic: جبل الزاوية ǧabal az-Zāwiya) or Mount Rīḥā (Arabic: جبل ريحا ǧabal Rīḥā) (also in medieval times: Banī-ʻUlaym Mountain (Arabic: جبل بني عليم) ǧabal Banī-ʻUlaym) is a highland region in Idlib Governorate in northwestern Syria.
Mount Zāwiya forms the southern group of the Limestone Massif of the western Aleppo plateau. To the north and northwest of the mountain lies the Rouj Plain. The Ghāb Plain is on the western (...)
Houran [album]
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Hauran, also Hawran or Houran, (Arabic: حوران, Ḥaurān) is a volcanic plateau, a geographic area and a people located in southwestern Syria and extending into the northwestern corner of modern-day Jordan. It gets its name from the Aramaic Hawran, meaning "cave land." In geographic and geomorphic terms, its boundaries generally extends from near Damascus and Mt. Hermon in the north to the Ajloun mountains of Jordan in the south. The area includes the Golan Heights on the west and is bounded (...)
