About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 238. Not illustrated. Chapters: Cities, Towns and Villages in Syria, Coastal Settlements in Syria, Former Settlements in Syria, Tell Abu Hureyra, Manbij, Arpad, Palmyra, Dura-Europos, Ugarit, Tartus, Ebla, Syrian Towns and Villages Depopulated in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Caesarea Philippi, Qatna, Tell Halaf, Apamea, Urkesh, Bosra, Carchemish, Mari, Syria, List of Cities in Syria, List of Assyrian Settlements, Nagar, Syria, Al Mina, Kadesh, Tunip, Qanawat, Hamoukar, Tell El Fakhariya, Resafa, Emar, Terqa, Sweyhat, Umm El-Marra, Ras Ibn Hani, Tell Beydar, Tell Leilan, Tell Arbid, Tell Barri, Chagar Bazar, List of Towns and Villages in Syria, Tell Tweini, Tell Qarqur, Qarqar, Bara, Syria, Serjilla, Zobah, Mureybet, Til Barsip, Nayrab, Laodicea Ad Libanum, Paltus, Abila Lysaniou, Ruhizzi, Arslan Tash, Tell-Ashtara, Amrit, Ras Al-Bassit, Seleucia Ad Belum, Turmanin, Chalcis, Syria, Pinara, Triparadeisos, Dolikha. Excerpt: Palmyra - In the mid first century CE, Palmyra, a wealthy and elegant city located along the caravan routes linking Persia with the Mediterranean ports of Roman Syria and Phoenicia, came under Roman control. (See below.) During the following period of great prosperity, the Aramaean and Arab inhabitants of Palmyra adopted customs and modes of dress from both the Parthian world to the east and the Graeco-Roman west. Tadmor is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Second Book of Chronicles 8:4) as a desert city built (or fortified) by the King Solomon of Judea, the son of David. In the First Book of Kings (9:18) is mentioned the city of Tamor or Tamar, also built by Solomon. But it is traditionally read (see Qere) as Tadmor, and several citations in the tractates of the Talmud and of the Midrash refer to that city in the Syrian desert (sometimes interchanging the letters "d" and "t" - "Tatmor" instead of "Tadmor"). Some mod...
