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Verified places tagged “byzantine” in Syria · Mysteria

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Verified places tagged “byzantine” in Syria

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🇸🇾 Syria

🇸🇾 Syria · Rock art

Hunstanton-Force Rock Shelter

Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine

Hunstanton-Force Rock Shelter in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) rock art attributed to Byzantine culture.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Fortress

High Fortress

Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine

High Fortress in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) fortress attributed to Byzantine culture.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works

Hama Norias — Orontes River Water Wheels (Hama Historic Hydraulic System)

Byzantine to Ayyubid–Ottoman palimpsest (Roman origins 4th c BCE–14th c CE continuity) · Byzantine / Ayyubid (Norias mainly Ayyubid 12th–14th c)

Seventeen surviving norias (river-driven water wheels) on Orontes River through Hama (285 m), largest Al-Muhammadiya 21 m diameter (largest noria in world, 1207 Ayyubid), lifting Orontes water 15–21…