Monuments of Syria أوابد سورية
A Window on Syria's Past by Ross Burns
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This isolated and sparsely inhabited village in the remote reaches of the Jebel al-Ala region of the Limestone Massif of northern Syria contains the remarkable underground tomb of Tiberius Claudius Sosander, built in his honour by his father in AD 134. It also includes remains of a monastic complex, located on what may once have […]
Bosra, Roman-era city in the Hauran with a virtually intact example of a Roman theatre. After Bostra became the capital of the new Roman province of Arabia in AD 106, the Nabataean town rapidly acquired most of the attributes of a Roman city with a long colonnaded axis and major facilities for the Roman legion […]
These monastic remains lie to the west of the Plain west of Sermada on the edge of the Jebel Barisha. .تقع بقايا هذا الدير إلى الغرب من السهول الممتدة غرب سرمدا على طرف جبل باريشا
This small village of the north Syrian Limestone Massif, lying on the northern road from St Simeon to Aleppo via the Jebel Semaan, contains several churches of exceptional interest. هذه القرية الصغيرة في الكتلة الكلسية الشمالية في سورية، تقع على الطريق الشمالي بين القديس سمعان وحلب عبر جبل سمعان، وتضم عدة كنائس ذات أهمية خاصة.
This complex — a Roman temple and remains of a large Byzantine basilica — lies west of Damascus in the eastern folds of the Anti-Lebanon Range. يضم هذا المجمع المعماري معبداً من العصر الروماني وبقايا كاتدرائية ضخمة من العصر البيزنطي، يقع غرب دمشق على السفوح الشرقية لجبل حرمون.
The few surviving remains of Circesium largely lie under the modern village of Buseira at the confluence of the Euphrates and Khabour Rivers. .معظم الأجزاء القليلة الباقية من موقع سيريسيوم القديم تقع تحت قرية البصيرة المبنية حديثاً عند ملتقى نهري الفرات والخابور For further coverage — http://www.flickr.com/photos/monsyr/sets/72157627212035966/. http://www.flickr.com/photos/monsyr/sets/72157627212035966/: لمزيد من المعلومات يمكن العودة إلى الرابط التالي
Cyrrhus lies 76 kms north of Aleppo, almost on the Turkish frontier and is set amid recently developed olive-growing country. Originally a Hellenistic settlement protecting the important access route between Antioch and Edessa (modern Sanliurfa in southeastern Turkey), Cyrrhus remained an important point defending the Roman military route to the crossing of the Euphrates at […]
