🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Babisqa
Babisqa (بابسقا) is a village in the Dead Cities of northwestern Syria. Its archaeological remains include two churches, large and small public baths, and a marketplace as well as unidentified…
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🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Babisqa (بابسقا) is a village in the Dead Cities of northwestern Syria. Its archaeological remains include two churches, large and small public baths, and a marketplace as well as unidentified…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Kharruba was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, near Modi'in. It was located 8 km east of Ramla. It was depopulated on July 12, 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Kebbi Empire (15th–18th c.) · Kebbi / Zamfarawa
Chain of 4 hilltop outlier forts with 1.5 km walls each protecting Surame fields.
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village
Bystrzyca [bɨsˈtʂɨt͡sa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oława, within Oława County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Ancient village
Gánovce is a village in the Poprad District of the Prešov Region in northern Slovakia, situated 3 km south-east from the town of Poprad.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Ancient village
Busskirch is a village (Kirchdorf) within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Greek Orthodox monastery and Tentative UNESCO World Heritage Site in Turkey
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village
village in Gmina Czersk, Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient village
Thrace
village in Momchilgrad municipality, Kardzhali oblast, Bulgaria
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient village
Palestinian village in Gaza subdistrict, depopulated in 1948
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Beit She'arim (Hebrew: בית שערים; Imperial Aramaic: בית שריי / Bet Sharei), also Besara (Greek: Βήσαρα), was a Jewish village located in the southwestern hills of the Lower Galilee, during the Roman…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Bayt Jibrin or Beit Jibrin (Arabic: بيت جبرين lit. 'House of the Powerful') was an Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict of British Mandatory Palestine, in what is today the State of Israel, which…