Syria

Syria

Syria Reviewing A Pre-War-Torn Syria Crac des Chevaliers, Syria. May 7, 2008 ; One of my fondest travel memories of the recent past was of the days, in May 2008, that I spent in the Middle Eastern country of Syria. Like a lot of people around the world, I’ve...
Aleppo, Syria

Aleppo, Syria

The UNESCO World Heritage-listed city of Aleppo is Syria’s largest city, although not the capital (that’s Damascus). Having been inhabited since perhaps as early as the 6th millennium BC, it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, an ancient...
Crac des Chevaliers, Syria

Crac des Chevaliers, Syria

Krac des Chevaliers, transliterated Crac des Chevaliers, in the Middle Eastern country of Syria, was a Crusader fortress that today is considered one of the most important preserved medieval military castles in the world. The Crac des Chevaliers was built by the...
Hama, Syria

Hama, Syria

Hama is the fifth-largest city in the Middle Eastern country of Syria. The city is renowned for its ancient norias which line the city’s Orontes River. The Norias of Hama are huge wooden waterwheels (norias means ‘wheels of pots’), up to 20 metres...
Damascus, Syria

Damascus, Syria

Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., the Syrian capital of Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East & is considered to be among the oldest continually inhabited cities on earth. It was an important cultural and commercial centre, by virtue of its...

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