Pictures of Travels in Syria: Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra, Krak_des_Chevaliers, Apamea
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Krak des Chevaliers - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The finest castle in the world, according to TE Lawrence, was built between 1150 and 1250. It guards the only major pass between Antakya in Turkey and Beirut in Lebanon. Through this strategic corridor, Syria communicated with the Mediterranean. It was of crucial importance to the Crusaders and other foreign invaders in their conquest of the coast.
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Marta in St. Simeon - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The author of our Syria Photo Gallery.
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Palmyra - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Palmyra had an strategic location in an Oasis which made it an ideal halt for caravans trading in silk from China to the Mediterranean and transformed it into a prosper kingdom from the 2nd century BC. Emperor Caracalla declared it a Roman colony in 217 BC.
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Via Recta-Damasco
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Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Madhat Basha is the main link between east and west Damascus, from Bab al-Jabieh to Bab Sharqi, and runs parallel to Souq al-Hamidiyeh. The shops
along the street are filled with textiles, aromatic spices, wooden handicrafts and sweets. Its adjacent alleys hide a treasure of ancient Damascene houses.
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Omayyad Mosque-Damascus - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The Omayyad Mosque stands at the heart of the Old city at the end of Souq al-Hamidiyeh. It was built by the Omayyad Caliph al-Walid ibn Abdul Malek in 705 A.D. when Damascus was the capital of the Arab Islamic Empire. It became an architectural model for hundreds of mosques throughout the Islamic world.
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Citadel-Aleppo-
Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Aleppo is Syria's second largest city, and has been a trading centre since Roman times. 50m above the city, a ring of crenellated walls and towers rises from a steep glacis, encircling a mass of ruins from every period.
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Apamea - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Built by Saluqos Nikator, the first king of the Seleucids in Syria in 300 B.C. He named it after his wife, Afamia. In the Christian era, Apamea became a center of philosophy and thought. Most of the uncovered ruins in it date back to the Roman and Byzantine ages.
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Basilica of St. Simeon - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: St. Simeon Stylites was a monk who in the 5th century chained himself in the top of a column (about 20 meters) for 38 years to be closer to God.He preached there and offered advice to pilgrims. After his death in 459 AD the largest church at that time was built in his honour.
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