Turkey
| Syria 2010 | Lebanon
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| Aleppo Homs Palmyra Krak de Chevaliers Damascus |
Aleppo
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| "Welcome to Syria" |
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| Lush Fields: 24 miles W of Aleppo |
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| Olive Trees: 20 miles W of Aleppo |
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| City Clock Tower |
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| Hafez Assad, Aleppo |
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| Plush Martini Dar Zamaria |
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| Martini Dar Zamaria Traditional interior courtyard |
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| Bab Antakya ("Antioch Gate") |
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| Aleppo Citadel |
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| Citadel on (restored) glacis Om a natural hill |
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| Citadel Entrance Bridge |
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| Citadel Entrance (I) |
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| Citadel Entrance (II) |
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| Citadel Entrance (III) Part of a series of six 90� turns. |
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| Citadel Tower, protecting gate |
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| Citadel interior |
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| Citadel Theater |
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| Rebuilt Throne Room |
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| Armenian Cathedral Tower |
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| Armenian Cathedral: Armenian Genocide Monument |
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| Great Mosque |
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| Aleppo Souk |
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| Aleppo Souk |
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| Aleppo Souk |
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| Splendid Entrance of National Museum |
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| National Museum Hittite Weather God, smiting ungodly |
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| Aleppo street scene |
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| 17 miles SW of Aleppo |
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| 26 miles SW of Aleppo |
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| 52 miles North of Homs |
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| Hafez Assad, 12 miles N of Homs |
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| 11 miles North of Homs |
Homs
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| Bashar Assad, Homs |
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| Old wall/gate |
Palmyra
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| Fruit trees, 13 miles SE of Homs |
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| 90pct desert, 31 miles W of Palymra |
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| Qala'at ibn Maan (17th c.) |
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| The Great Colonnade |
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| Temple of Bel (32 AD) Inner Cella |
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| Temple of Bel (Interior) |
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| Temple of Bel: Detail |
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| Carving, Temple of Bel |
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| Carving of Camel (Temple of Bel) |
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| Palmyra: Palms |
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| Temple of Bel (Courtyard) |
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| Colonnnade entrance |
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| Colonnade Entrance |
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| Colonnades |
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| Tretrapylon As resurrected by Syrian dept of Antiquities |
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| New outer wall for Theatre Workmen are using tools to "age" new stone. |
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| Theatre Mostly restored original, rebuilt outer circle. |
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| Theater interior |
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| Temple of Baal Shamin (17 AD) |
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| Northern Colonnade |
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| Funerary Temple |
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| "Temple of the Standards" Diocletian's Camp |
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| Tower Tombs (~ 1st c.) |
Krak de Chevaliers
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| Scotsman at Krak de Chevaliers |
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| Outer Walls |
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| Entrance Tower |
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| Entrance: With Arabic Inscriptions |
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| Entrance Passage: for Horsemen |
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| Stables |
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| Inner Wall Tower |
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| Outer Wall |
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| Between outer and inner walls |
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| Inner Keep |
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| Inner Keep |
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| Moat |
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| Moat |
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| Inner Courtyard |
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| Interior |
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| Egptian Theme in Great Hall?? |
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| Inner Hall |
Damascus
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| Martyrs Square Note "Medina on a Pillar" monument |
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| Saladin Statue |
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| Fragment of Roman Gate (3rd c.) West gate of Temple of Jupiter |
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| Umayyad Mosque Pious Pligrims + Random Tourist |
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| Umayyad Mosque |
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| Umayyad Mosque Corurtyard |
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| Umayyad Mosque: Interior |
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| Umayyad Mosque: Mosaic |
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| Umayyad Mosque: Mosaic |
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| Umayyad Mosque Old Public Treasury |
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| Tomb of Saladin |
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| Locals, tourists, and pilgrims |
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| Sayyida Ruqayya Mosque Modern Entrance Courtyard |
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| Sayyida Ruqayya Mosque Iranian (?) Pilgrims |
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| Tomb-shrine of Sayyida Ruqayya (A grand-daughter of Ali.) |
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| Roman Arch |
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| "Restored" Damascus Citadel |
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| Azem Palace |
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| Azem Palace |
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| Damascus Hafez Assad |
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| 35 m. South of Damscus |
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