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Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa (Arabic: كاتدرائية طرطوس) was a Catholic cathedral in the city of Tartus, Syria.
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🇸🇾 Syria · Fortress
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa (Arabic: كاتدرائية طرطوس) was a Catholic cathedral in the city of Tartus, Syria.
🇸🇾 Syria · Fortress
Chastel Rouge, also called Qal’at Yahmur (Arabic: قلعة يحمور, Castle of Yahmur), is a small Crusader stronghold in the North West of Syria that belonged to the County of Tripoli.
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Khan Arnabah also spelt Khan Arnabeh and historically known as al-Uraynba, is a town in southwestern Syria, administratively part of the Quneitra Governorate (Golan Heights), in the portion of the…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Amrit (Arabic: عمريت) is a small village near Tartus, in south-western Syria. It lies on the site of the ancient Marathus (Ancient Greek: Μάραθος, Marathos), a Phoenician port located near…
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Al-Nayrab (Arabic: النيرب) is a town in Syria, to the south-east of the city of Aleppo in northern Syria.
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Khan As'ad Pasha (Arabic: خَان أَسْعَد بَاشَا, romanized: Khān ʾAsʿad Bāşā) is the largest caravanserai (khān) in the Old City of Damascus, covering an area of 2,500 square metres (27,000 sq ft).
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Baqirha (also spelled Bāķirḥā) was an ancient settlement in the Dead Cities area in northwestern Syria.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Dium or Dion (Ancient Greek: Δῖον) or Dia (Δία) was a city in ancient Coele-Syria mentioned by numerous ancient writers.
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Al-Rawda (Arabic: الروضة) is a tell, or archaeological settlement mound, in the Syrian steppe, east of Hama.
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Tall Sulaymānī (Arabic: تل سليماني) is a hill in Syria. It is located in al-Hasakah province, in the northeastern part of the country, 500 kilometers northeast of the capital Damascus.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Arwad (Phoenician: 𐤀𐤓𐤅𐤃, romanized: ʾrwd; Arabic: أرواد, romanized: ʾArwād), the classical Aradus, is a town in Syria on an eponymous island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Tall Al-Hamidiya (also Tell Hamidiya, Tell Hamidiye, and Tell Hamidi) is an ancient Near Eastern archeological site the upper Hābūr region of modern-day Syria in the Al-Hasakah Governorate on a loop…
🇸🇾 Syria · Fortress
Chastel Blanc (Arabic: برج صافيتا, Burj Safita or Safita Tower) is a medieval structure in Safita, western Syria. It was built by the Knights Templar during the Crusades upon prior fortifications.
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Arab al-Mulk (Arabic: عرب الملك, also spelled Arab al-Milk, Beldi al-Melek, Balda al-Milk or Beldeh) is a coastal village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District in the…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
al-Jārūd was a small-town in the Wadi Hamar area, about 40 km east of the Balikh River in present-day Syria, inhabited during the 9th century.
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Fafertin (Arabic: فافرتين; Kurdish: Fafirtîn) is a village in northwestern Syria, located in the Jebel Sem'an region of the Dead Cities.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Maydaa (Arabic: ميدعا) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Douma District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located east of Damascus.
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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…