Monuments of Syria أوابد سورية
A Window on Syria's Past by Ross Burns
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The ancient town of Salamias was the seat of a Byzantine bishop, emphasising the importance of the northwest Syrian steppe in the late Roman and Byzantine centuries. The town was the birthplace of a dynasty that founded the Fatimid sect of Islam in the early eighth century. It was fortified in Ayyubid times (a little […]
The remains of the Ayyubid citadel al Salkhad in the southern Hauran, built into the cone of an extinct volcano, were little visited before the military base was removed from the site in the years immediately pre-2011. Salkhad was a centre mentioned as early as the Old Testament (Salkha or Salcah), remaining in use as […]
This curious ancient temple survives in the middle of a small town in the Hauran region of southern Syria. ما زالت هذه البلدة الصغيرة الواقعة في سهل حوران جنوب سورية، تحتفظ ببقايا معبد من العصر الروماني. Flickr site — لمزيد من الصور يمكن العودة للموقع: http://www.flickr.com/photos/monsyr/sets/72157628281544997/.
Just 27 km north of Damascus, the Seidnaya Plain shelters a remarkable collection of Christian remains, some re-cycled from the stones of Classical-era buildings. st famous is the convent of the Virgin of Seidnaya, founded by Justinian in the sixth century and still a pilgrimage destination for people of many faiths. The little Chapel of St […]
One of the most frequently visited sites in the Limestone Massif of Northern Syria, Serjilla contains an exceptional range of well-preserved buildings clustered around a baths/inn complex. من أكثر مواقع الكتلة الشمالية في سورية شهرة وزيارة، يضم مجموعة كبيرة وهامة من المنشآت المحفوظة جيداً تتجمع حول المبنى المركزي المؤلف من مجمع يضم خاناً وحمامات. Flickr […]
The modern Druze town of Shahba marks the spot where the Emperor, Philip the Arab, was born in the early third century AD. He ruled as Emperor from 244 to 249 and founded on this site a ‘new town’ to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of Rome. A number of the major projects […]
Today a small village in the Hauran, Saqqa (Byzantine name, Maximianopolis) was once a centre of some significance—a Roman colonia and later seat of a bishop. The town retains a remarkable collection of unusual buildings, all achieved in a highly decorated form in the local basalt. The building dubbed by the first European traveller to […]
