8 places
The badia, oasis cities and the caravan routes that crossed them.
The great crusader castle
Al-Hosn · Homs
The Bride of the Desert
Tadmur (Palmyra) · Homs
A caliphal city on the Euphrates
Raqqa · Raqqa
A castle on a lake peninsula
Qalaat Jabar · Raqqa
A walled desert pilgrimage city
Al-Rusafa · Raqqa
Palace and archives of the Euphrates
Tell Hariri · Deir ez-Zor
A frontier city above the river
Al-Salihiyah · Deir ez-Zor
Byzantine walls at a river gorge
Halabiye · Deir ez-Zor
