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| HOMS |
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Built 2400 B.C. , called Emessa in the ancient times with high power specially becausIdle of its temple which the daughter of its priest Julia Domna married the Roman emperor Septimos Severos |
| Attractions |
| St. Elian Church |
| Virgin Girdle Church |
| The National Museum |
| Zahrawi Palace |
| Ibn Alwaleed Mosque |
| Al Noury Mosque |
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| HAMA |
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Old city in a rich agricultural region. It was rebuilt as "Apamea" by Seleucus Nicator I in 300BC and flourished during the Roman and Byzantine periods, It also figured in the Mohammedan conquest and the wars of the crusaders. It was the home of the famous Arab historian Abufida |
| Attractions |
| The Museum |
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Azem Palace |
| The Norias |
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an ancient hydraulic structure designed for collecting and distributing water by utilising the power of a running stream. straddling the meandering River Orontes. The use of waterwheels in Syria dates to the Classical and Hellenistic periods, possibly even the Nabataean period (2nd century BC–AD 2nd century), |
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| APAMEA |
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Built in the fourth centaury B.C. by Emperor Seleucas Necator who named it after his wife's, visited by Antonio and Cleopatra and Hannibal, a philosophical school of modern platonic approach established there, after rebuilt by Romans their civilization mingled wonderfully with the Persian one.it was a commercial centre |
| Attractions |
| The wall |
| The Straight street with high columns from both sides |
| The Theatre located the westernside of the city |
| Big Byzantine churches dating back to the 5th and 6th centauries A.D. |
| Roman Bath |
| THE MUSEUM |
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| SHEIZAR (CAESARS) |
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In ancient civilizations known also as Laryssa, situated 25 km to the north-west of Hama, famous for its citadel and other wonderful ruins: The southern Tower, The Pyramidal Mass |
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