Monuments of Syria أوابد سورية
A Window on Syria's Past by Ross Burns
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Remains of the twin Crusader castles at Bakas Shugur lie in the northern reaches of the Syrian coastal mountains, the Jebel Ansariye. قلعتان متشابهتان من مرحلة الحروب الصليبية تقعان على السفوح الشمالية لسلسلة الجبال الساحلية السورية.
A small village looking north across the pass leading west to the Plain of Amuq and on to Antioch. House remains possibly date to the first century AD but the church was not constructed until the late sixth or early seventh century. قرية صغيرة تطل على الشمال وتقطع الطريق المؤدية غرباً إلى سهل العمق وصولاً […]
This superbly situated site looks down over the route joining Aleppo to Antioch via the Bab al-Hawa crossing. In the distance lie several sites of equal interest. Most notable of the remains is the Temple dedicated to Zeus Bomos, ‘Zeus of the Altar’, but down the slopes to the northeast lie remains of an extensive […]
The ruins of the Byzantine town of Bara are some of the most extensive in the Limestone Massif west of Aleppo in northern Syria. Over five churches, tombs with striking pyramid-shaped roofs, at least one monastery and a donjon originating from the Crusader period dot the landscape. تعتبر بقايا البلدة البيزنطية في البارة واحدة من […]
Until recently difficult to reach by vehicle, this interesting and extensive site on the northern reaches of the Mountain of Simeon (Jebel Semaan) is now accessible by sealed road. Barad includes a remarkable series of churches, monastic complexes and house remains as well as a a monumental tomb, probably of the second or third century […]
This small site east of the great Church of St Simeon includes the considerably ruined Church of St Phocas (491–492), once one of the largest in the Jebel Semaan area of the northern Limestone Massif. The church. probably constructed not long after St Simeon’s Church as it imitates some aspects of its style, was turned […]
The deserted Byzantine site of Behyo in the Jebel al-`Ala includes two late churches on the western edge of the village. The smaller example (the ‘East Church’) uses transverse sweeping arches in the style of Qalb Lhozeh. The ‘West Church’, seen here in de Vogue’s reconstructions, is more conventionally divided by two rows of five […]
