Villages in the south of Syria ( Hauran, Jabal al-Druze ), the north-east ( the Syrian island ) and the Orontes River basin depend mostly on agriculture, mainly grain, vegetables and fruits.

Damascus was annexed to Zengid territory, and all Syria was unified under the authority of Nur ad-Din, from Edessa in the north to the Hauran in the south.

Philip was to receive Gaulanitis ( the Golan Heights ), Batanaea ( southern Syria ), Trachonitis and Auranitis ( Hauran ).

They initially settled in the Hauran region, eventually spreading to modern Lebanon, Israel & the Palestinian Territories and Jordan, briefly securing governorship of Syria away from the Nabataeans.

They initially settled in the Hauran region, eventually spreading to modern Lebanon, Israel / Palestine and Jordan, briefly securing governorship of Syria away from the Nabataeans.

Hauran, ( / ALA-LC: Ḥawrān ), also spelled Hawran or Houran, is a volcanic plateau, a geographic area and a people located in southwestern Syria and extending into the northwestern corner of Jordan.

The volcanic soils of Hauran make it one of the most fertile regions in Syria ; it produces considerable wheat and is particularly famous for its vineyards.

The king Jafna bin ‘ Amr emigrated with his family and retinue north and settled in Hauran, where the Ghassanid state was founded.

It is the capital of Daraa Governorate, historically part of the ancient Hauran region.

The Yarmouk River drains much of the Hauran to the west and is the largest tributary of the Jordan River.

The Hauran is mentioned in the Bible ( Ezekiel 47: 16-18 ) describing the boundary area of the Israelite Kingdom at the time.

Today, the Hauran is not a distinct political entity, but encompasses the Syrian governorates of Quneitra, As Suwayda, and Daraa, and the Jordanian governorates of Irbid, Ajloun and Jerash, as well as the western part of Mafraq Governorate.

Zebah and Zalmunna had succeeded in escaping across the Jordan River with a remnant of the Midianite host, but were overtaken at Karkor, probably in the Hauran, and routed by Gideon.

They spread to the North mainl in Southern and Western Mesopotamia, Rafah, Golan, Hauran and they were the first Southern Arabs to settle Northern Egypt were they were later joined with the Sicasik, Banu Judham and the Ghassanids.

Between 8000 and 7000 BC, people of Hauran were eating mostly hunted gazelles and foxes.

These territories abounded in water, a precious commodity in Canaan, and thus constituted one of the most valuable parts of the country ; additionally, Manasseh's geographic situation enabled it to defend two important mountain passes-Esdraelon on the west of the Jordan and Hauran on the east.

The rebellion was led by al-Atrash family in an aim to gain independence, but ended in brutal suppression of the Druze, significant depopulation of the Hauran region and execution of the Druze leaders in 1910.

In 1875, Guérin described Methelleh or Metelleh as a village with a spring, occupied by Druses from the Hauran who cultivated a garden to the east.

Manya fell in love with the beauty of the land and was especially touched by the plight of the Jewish settlement in the Hauran.

They occur first and foremost on the Golan Heights, the Hauran, and in Jordan, which probably has the largest concentration of dolmen in the Middle East.

The Ghassanid kingdom established in the first centuries AD in the Hauran mountains was the first ( Christian ) Arab authority on the sedentary area.

Hauran relies mainly on annual snow and rain during winter and spring and many of the ancient sites contain cisterns and water storage facilities to better utilize the seasonal rainfall.

The Hauran rebellion was a violent Druze uprising against Ottoman authority in the Syrian province, which erupted in 1909.

Zuabi was born in 1935 in Khirbat Ghazalah, a village 75 miles south of Damascus in the Hauran region.

In 1596 Daraa appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Madinat Idra ' a and was part of the nahiya of Butayna in the Qada of Hauran.

In 1596 Shahba appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Sahba and was part of the nahiya of Bani Miglad in the Qada of Hauran.

Mu ’ in ad-Din patrolled the Hauran with his army while Nur ad-Din defeated Antioch at the Battle of Inab that year, in which Prince Raymond was killed.

Yaqut al-Hamawi noted in the 1220s that As Suwaida was " a village of the Hauran Province ".

Her first priority was finding a solution for the problem in Hauran.

They occupied Hauran, and in about 85 BC their king Aretas III became lord of Damascus and Coele-Syria.

The Bible tells us that Saul, David and Solomon ( late 11th to 10th centuries ) fought against the Arameans kingdoms across the northern frontier of Israel: Aram-Sôvah in the Beq ’ a, Aram-Bêt-Rehob and Aram-Ma ’ akah around Mount Hermon, Geshur in the Hauran, and Aram-Damascus.

It includes the region of Hauran, and the governorates of Daraa, As Suwayda, and Quneitra.

In 1596 Bosra appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Nafs Busra, being part of the nahiya of Badi Nasiyya in the Qada of Hauran.

In 1596 Qanawat appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the nahiya of Badi Nasiyya in the Qada of Hauran.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

This structure can be also seen as a series of concentric circles, where the gospel begins in the center, Jerusalem, and is expanding ever outward to Judea & Samaria, Syria, Asia Minor, Europe, and eventually to Rome.

A counterpoint to this argument would be that neither Samaria nor Syria where these refugees were claimed to have originated from were actually ever part of Assyria, but were colonies inhabited largely by Hebrews, Nabateans and Arameans respectively.

Of notable importance is Isaiah 7: 14, where the prophet is assuring king Ahaz that God will save Judah from the invading armies of Israel and Syria ; the sign that will prove this is the forthcoming birth of a child called Emmanuel, " God With Us ".

Antioch, the third-most important city of the Roman Empire, then the capital city of Syria province, today Antakya, Turkey, was where Christians were first called thus.

It relates that certain Jews coming to Syria and Salamis, where Barnabas was then preaching the gospel, being highly exasperated at his extraordinary success, fell upon him as he was disputing in the synagogue, dragged him out, and, after the most inhumane tortures, stoned him to death.

The historic silting of ports along the southern coasts of Asia Minor ( e. g. Clarus, and the examples of Ephesus, Priene and Miletus, where harbors had to be abandoned because of the silt deposited by the Meander ) and in coastal Syria during the last centuries BC.

This document, which was accepted by the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ) after lobbying by Fatah and DFLP, cautiously introduced the concept of a two-state solution in the PLO, and caused a split in the organization leading to the formation of the Rejectionist Front, where radical organizations such as the PFLP, PFLP-GC, Palestine Liberation Front and others gathered with the backing of Syria, Libya and Iraq to oppose Arafat and the mainstream PLO stance.

The DFLP is believed to receive limited financial and military aid from Syria, where it is active in the Palestinian refugee camps.

Narseh moved south into Roman Mesopotamia in 297, where he inflicted a severe defeat on Galerius in the region between Carrhae ( Harran, Turkey ) and Callinicum ( Ar-Raqqah, Syria ) ( and thus, the historian Fergus Millar notes, probably somewhere on the Balikh River ).

The saga of Harold Hardrada narrates his expedition to the East, his brilliant exploits in Constantinople, Syria, and Sicily, his skaldic accomplishments, and his battles in England against Harold Godwinson, the son of Earl Godwin, where he fell at Stamford Bridge in 1066 only a few days before Harold himself fell at the battle of Hastings.

The Vichy authorities in 1941 allowed Germany to move aircraft and supplies through Syria to Iraq where they were used against British forces.

It is an official holiday in most countries specifically in Egypt, Lebanon, kingdom of Bahrain, Palestine, and Syria where it coincides with May Day.

One of the earliest examples of these kinds of conversions was in Damascus, Syria, where in 705 Umayyad caliph Al-Walid I bought the church of St. John from the Christians and had it rebuilt as a mosque in exchange for building a number of new churches for the Christians in Damascus.

Syriac was spoken in Syria, and Mesopotamia, and with dialect in Palestine, where it was known as Aramaic.

It is not clear when and where olive trees were first domesticated: in Asia Minor in the 6th millennium ; Greece has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide, over 26 liters per person per year ; Spain and Italy, around 14 l ; Tunisia, Portugal, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, around 8 l. Northern Europe and North America consume far less, around 0. 7 l, but the consumption of olive oil outside its home territory has been rising steadily.

North Korea and Syria are two notable examples where a son has inherited political control.

Part of this attempt was reportedly influenced by ecumenical efforts in Syria and Lebanon, where the Greek-Melkite Church has played an important role in improving ties with the Orthodox.

Since approximately 10, 000 BC Syria was one of the centers of Neolithic culture ( PPNA ), where agriculture and cattle breeding appeared for the first time in the world.

Politics in the Syrian Arab Republic takes place in the framework of what is officially a semi-presidential republic, but what the CIA consider " a republic under an authoritarian regime " where the power is in the hands of the President of Syria and his family, all members of the ruling Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party which is a cell of the Syrian-led Ba ' ath Party ( established in 1966 when the original Ba ' ath Party was dissolved and split into two ).

He also kept those forces wintered in Syria, where they became attracted to the young Elagabalus.

In 76 – 77, Trajan's father was Governor of Syria ( Legatus pro praetore Syriae ), where Trajan himself remained as Tribunus legionis.

* Leaving Parmenion in Syria, Alexander advances south without opposition until he reaches Gaza where bitter resistance halts him for two months, and he sustains a serious shoulder wound during a sortie.

Chardonnay's true origins were further obscured by vineyard owners in Lebanon and Syria, who claimed that the grape's ancestry could be traced to the Middle East, from where it was introduced to Europe by returning Crusaders, though there is little external evidence to support that theory.