The city of Sweida city as old as history, is famous for its ancient monuments and charming mountain nature.
Endosperm is located in the far south of the Syrian Arab Republic, and away from the capital, Damascus, about 100 miles to the south.
City endosperm is the largest city in the province of Sweida, rising from the sea 1000 meters, so it is a wonderful resort, where temperatures are moderate summer most of the time. Renowned for maintaining the cultivation of apples, grapes of all kinds, and fruit is one of the best fruit due to the adoption of the trees on rain rather than irrigation.
Witness endosperm large urban movement, which is also renowned architecture where a high incidence of beautiful villas, with white stone and black stone. Conservative in general contain a number of laboratories and factories, but are not considered an industrial city, and in most people depend on agriculture resources.
The southern Syria effects-rich areas and important historical monuments, each stone of the stones interpreter disclose its ancient civilization, history and for each of its archaeological sites bright story of the past shed light and Haga of civilizations Tladh flourished in this beautiful spot from Syria.
Since the stone ages, intermediate and modern (12000-4000) BC., Ancient human habitation of this region, which currently includes Mount Arabs or (Sweida) and Horan (Daraa) and the Golan Heights or (Quneitra). And left behind the effects of inmate and Khovh and stone tools and Flint and pottery, and then define this human domestication of animals and upbringing, and settled within the communities and agricultural villages Organization, and March agriculture after devising many varieties of grain land and adopted them in securing their food daily, and was Qubliz live on hunting and capture, collection, and love of branches of plants and trees baskets and Talaha from the inside with mud to keep the materials and daily bread, and then developed this method and he made pots and jars pottery when he discovered hardening clays near a campfire, and then invented the wheel, increasing production times what it was and improved quality, and when he discovered minerals such as copper, tin and iron and other (4000-500) BC., making them different tools and weapons and ornamentation.
Settled in this region different waves coming from the Arabian Peninsula: Akkadian, Amore, Canaanite, Aramaic, Assyrian, Nabataean, € ™ s, Gsanah, starting from the third millennium BC. M and has been invaded Greek Greyhound and Albultma then Roman and Byzantine starting from the fourth century BC. That made the Arab-Islamic conquests (635) m. Vhrrt country from the forces of occupation, also addressed the invading Franks campaigns started from the eleventh century AD and was able to remove them from throughout this region and the other in order to achieve evacuate and independence of the country on the seventeenth of April 1946.
I have known areas of southern Syria old name (Bashan) or (Bazan) through age Canaanite in the second millennium BC. M, were stretching from the mountains of Hermon and even Transjordan and its ruling King (Og) and then subjected to the rule of the Kingdom of Damascus Aramaen during the first millennium BC. M., In the days of the Assyrians carried label (Jubranoa) any hollow earth. Also carried different names: (Oranias) country caves and caves. And (trakhonits), the country rocks of the many, and (Gaulinitis) dotted hills with fortifications, and called Jabal al-Arab at the time (Osldamos) was during the covenants Greek - Romanian - Byzantine, either through age Arab-Muslim has called Jabal al-Arab (b Mount Rayyan) any Almertoa and saturated Bal_khasb, where sung the Umayyad Greer poet said:
And preferably Rayyan were resident I would love to Jabal Al Rayyan of Mount
As called century atheist century AD Mount (Bani Hilal) relative to the tribe of Bani Hilal which Astotnth before leaving to North Africa, and after the migration of families from the Muslim community Unitarian him coming from Lebanon at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth became known Jebel Druze until 1937, where he called Jabal al-Arab, and now known endosperm province. As you know, Horan province of Daraa and the Golan Quneitra Governorate.
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