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Bride of the desert — the caravan city that briefly rivaled Rome

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Palmyra, Arabic: Tadmur, was an ancient city in central Syria. In antiquity, it was an important city located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 180 km southwest of the Euphrates at Deir ez-
Palmyra, Arabic: Tadmur, was an ancient city in central Syria. In antiquity, it was an important city located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 180 km southwest of the Euphrates at Deir ez-… © James Gordon from Los Angeles, California, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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