Looking at Apamia أفاميا through Strabo سترابو
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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Syrian Tetrapolis, The Four “sister cities”, المدن السلوقية السورية الأربعة
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 […]
“What have the Romans ever done for syria?”
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 […]
EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN SYRIA
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 […]
To … Damascus
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, […]
