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Travels in Syria and the Holy Land – John Lewis Burckhardt, 1822

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land – John Lewis Burckhardt, 1822

Quote: The principal geographical discoveries of our traveller, are the nature of the country between the Dead Sea and the gulf of Aelana, now Akaba;– the extent, conformation, and detailed topography of the Haouran;–the site of Apameia on the Orontes, one of the most important cities of Syria under the Macedonian Greeks;   Quote: When the Macedonian Greeks first became […]

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