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Category Archives: syria

Strabos Map

Looking at Apamia أفاميا through Strabo سترابو

September 19, 2010by AW 17 Comments

Strabos Map Strabo Strabo Strabo (Greek: Στράβων; 63/64 BC – ca. AD 24) was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in […]

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History, syria, Urban
Seleucus I Nicator (Louvre)

Syrian Tetrapolis, The Four “sister cities”, المدن السلوقية السورية الأربعة

July 24, 2010by AW 12 Comments

Antioch أنطاكيا,  Seleucia Pieriaسلوقية بييريا,  Apamea أفاميا, Laodicea in Syriaاللاذقية . After Alexander’s death in 323 BC, his generals divided up the territory he had conquered. Seleucus I Nicator سلوقس […]

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History, syria, Urban
The major Hellenistic realms included the Diadoch

“What have the Romans ever done for syria?”

June 24, 2010by AW Leave a comment

In Syria […] the flower of the Hellenic conqueror was settled. […] For the Romans in Syria not much was left to be done as to the increase of urban […]

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History, syria
church of nativity_basilica

EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN SYRIA

April 12, 2010by AW 2 Comments

The Early Christian/Late Antique period is usually defined as beginning in roughly 250 — the later empire beginning with Diocletian, Roman emperor from 284 to 305), but the end of […]

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architecture, History, syria

To … Damascus

February 6, 2010by AW 1 Comment

No record event has occurred in the world but Damascus was in existence to receive the news of it. Go back as far as you will into the vague past, […]

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Damascus, History, syria

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