Under Fakhr-al-Dīn II ( Fakhreddin II ), the Druze dominion increased until it included almost all Syria, extending from the edge of the Antioch plain in the north to Safad in the south, with a part of the Syrian desert dominated by Fakhr-al-Din's castle at Tadmur ( Palmyra ), the ancient capital of Zenobia.

He also strengthened Lebanon's strategic position by expanding its territory, building forts as far away as Palmyra in Syria, and gaining control of Palestine.

Selene married King Juba II of Numidia and later Mauretania ; the queen of Syria, Zenobia of Palmyra, is reportedly descended from Selene and Juba II.

Zenobia was born and raised in Palmyra, Syria.

Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria

Palmyra was the name of an important city in ancient times located in central Syria.

Yet in the following year, there are records of the settlement being referred to as “ Palmyra ”, most likely referencing the Roman outpost of Palmyra in Syria.

Since he had friendly relations with Zenobia, the separatist queen of Palmyra ruling in Syria, he maintained his occupancy of the bishop's house in Antioch for another four years.

During his residence in Syria, Burckhardt visited Palmyra, Damascus, Lebanon and made a series of other exploratory trips in the region.

The village, along with the town, is named after Palmyra in present-day Syria.

The town is named after the ancient city Palmyra in Syria.

It was named after Palmyra, Syria, an oasis city mentioned in the Bible.

* AD 262-267-It is possible that elements of III were involved with fighting Queen Zenobia in Palmyra ( Syria ).

* The Second World War: Mont Pinçon, Souleuvre, Noireau Crossing, Amiens 1944, Brussels, Neerpelt, Nederrijn, Nijmegen, Lingen, Bentheim, North-West Europe 1944-45, Baghdad 1941, Iraq 1941, Palmyra, Syria 1941, El Alamein, North Africa 1942-43, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Italy 1944

Septimius Odaenathus, a Prince of Palmyra, was appointed by Valerian as the governor of the province of Syria Palaestina.

The tombstone of a woman of the Catuvellauni called Regina, freedwoman and wife of Barates, a soldier from Palmyra in Syria, was found in the 4th century Roman fort of Arbeia in South Shields in the north-east of England.

British fighters disable two Heinkel He 111s on the ground at Palmyra, Syria.

Palmyrene or Palmyrenean was a West Aramaic dialect spoken in the city of Palmyra, Syria, in the early centuries AD.

* The Second World War: Mont Pincon, Souleuvre, Noireau Crossing, Amiens 1944, Brussels, Neerpelt, Nederrijn, Lingen, Veghel, Nijmegen, Rhine, Bentheim, North West Europe 1944-1945, Baghdad 1941, Iraq 1941, Palmyra, Syria 1941, Msus, Gazala, Knightbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein, El Agheila, Advance on Tripoli, North Africa 1941-1943, Sicily 1943, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Italy 1943-1944

He eventually reached Crete, and sailing thence to Sidon, travelled through Syria, visiting Palmyra and Baalbek.

* The Second World War < sup > 3 </ sup >: Mont Pincon, Souleuvre, Noireau Crossing, Amiens 1944, Brussels, Neerpelt, Nederrijn, Nijmegen, Lingen, Bentheim, North-West Europe 1944-45, Baghdad 1941, Iraq 1941, Palmyra, Syria 1941, El Alamein, North Africa 1942-43, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Italy 1944

* Second World War: St. Omer-La Bassée, Tilly sur Seulles, Le Havre, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, Scheldt, Zetten, Arnhem 1945, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Abyssinia 1940, Falluja, Baghdad 1941, Iraq 1941, Palmyra, Syria 1941, Tobruk 1941, Belhamed, Mersa Matruh, Defence of Alamein Line, Deir el Shein, Ruweisat, Ruweisat Ridge, El Alamein, Matmata Hills, Akarit, Enfidaville, Djebel Garci, Tunis, Ragoubet Souissi, North Africa 1941-43, Trigno, Sangro, Villa Grande, Cassino I, Castle Hill, Hangman's Hill, Italy 1943-44, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Kohima, Chindits 1944, Burma 1943-45

Lucius Septimius Odaenathus, Odenathus or Odenatus (;, Greek:, ; ), the Latinized form of the Syriac Odainath, was a ruler of Palmyra, Syria and later of the short lived Palmyrene Empire, in the second half of the 3rd century, who succeeded in recovering the Roman East from the Persians and restoring it to the Empire.

The church also maintains a visitors ' center at the hill and the former Smith property and homes, which straddles the border between Ontario and Wayne counties, as well as the Palmyra New York Temple.

In 1997 the Smiths ' log cabin was rebuilt on its original site and in 2000 the church built the Palmyra New York Temple on a portion of the former Smith farm.

* Temple of Baal, Palmyra, Syria

From Palmyra there is a large collection of nearly forty funerary busts, acquired in the 19th century.

The Strata Diocletiana, which ran from the Euphrates to Palmyra and northeast Arabia, is the classic Diocletianic frontier system, consisting of an outer road followed by tightly spaced forts followed by further fortifications in the rear.

It is the northernmost of the Northern Line Islands and lies northwest of the next closest island ( Palmyra Atoll ), and south of Honolulu.

* 1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.

Palmyra Atoll () is an unoccupied equatorial Northern Pacific atoll administered as an unorganized incorporated territory by the United States federal government.

Palmyra is one of the Northern Line Islands ( southeast of Kingman Reef and north of Kiribati Line Islands ), located almost due south of the Hawaiian Islands, roughly halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa.

Palmyra is an incorporated territory of the United States ( the only such territory in existence since 1959 ), meaning that it is subject to all provisions of the U. S. Constitution and that is permanently under American sovereignty.

However, since Palmyra is also an unorganized territory, there is no Act of Congress specifying how Palmyra should be governed.

Palmyra is also uninhabited, as far as permanent residents are concerned.

The issue of the governing of Palmyra is generally a moot point, since there is no permanent population remaining there, nor any reason to think that there will be in the future.

Palmyra is the only unorganized incorporated territory of the US.

The rest of Palmyra is Federal land and waters under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Since Palmyra has no local government at all, it is administered directly from Washington, D. C., by the Office of Insular Affairs, of the U. S. Department of the Interior.

For all other purposes, Palmyra is counted as one of the U. S. Minor Outlying Islands.

There is no current economic activity on Palmyra.

There is a 2, 000-meter-long, unpaved, airstrip on Cooper Island ( Palmyra ( Cooper ) Airport, ICAO code PLPA ), that was built for the Navy during WW II.

* March 26 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.