Explore: Syrian Route

and then reached Mecca. In medieval Syria, the departure point for the pilgrims was Damascus. This Syrian route started from Damascus, and heading south

petroglyphs, inscriptions, forts, palaces, sections of the Syrian and Egyptian pilgrimage (Hajj) routes, aswell as remains of the Hejaz railway, an important

formerly Ottoman-ruled Syrian provinces. It gained de jure independence as a parliamentary republic in 1945 when the First Syrian Republic became a founding

Ba'athist Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR), was the Syrian state between 1963 to 2024 under the one-party rule of the Syrian regional branch

al-Ma'an, the Ottoman (16th c.) fortified khan: in article about the "Syrian Hajj route", with details including photos (pp. 40-42) and floor plan (p. 37);

smuggling routes to Lebanon through Syrian territory and border crossings. To continue destroying strategic heavy weapons systems throughout Syria, including

Semitic civilizations, al-Ula was a market city on the historic incense trade route that linked India and the Persian Gulf to the Levant and Europe. From an

and 500 km (310 miles) southeast of Petra, Jordan. Istakhri wrote in his Routes of the Realms (مسالك الممالك): Al-Hijr is a small village. It belongs to

December 2024 following a HTS-led Syrian opposition offensive, several clashes have occurred between the newly formed Syrian transitional government and Hezbollah

construction, the Sulaymaniyya Takiyya became an important stop on the "Syrian route" of pilgrims to Mecca, and it is considered to this day "as the most