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Syria: A Historical and Architectural Guide »
Authors: Warwick Ball
ISBN-13: 9781566566650, ISBN-10: 1566566657
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc
Date Published: April 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Warwick Ball
Book Synopsis
With its many site plans and maps, readable text and 96 color plates, this book makes available the immensely wealthy history, archaeology and architecture of Syria to the general reader and the interested traveler.
Table of Contents
| 1 | Introduction | 7 |
| 2 | Historical background | 15 |
| 3 | Architectural background | 48 |
| 4 | Damascus and environs | 67 |
| 5 | The Hauran and Southern Syria | 85 |
| 6 | The Orontes Valley and Central Syria | 109 |
| 7 | The coast | 129 |
| 8 | Aleppo and environs | 148 |
| 9 | The dead cities of the north | 167 |
| 10 | The Euphrates and the Jazira | 190 |
| 11 | Palmyra and the desert | 213 |
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