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HOMS
HOMS IS THE THIRD MOST IMPORTANT CITY IN
SYRIA. THE FACT OF ITS BEING AN EXTREMELY ANCIENT CITY IS CONFIRMED BY THE
DISCOVERY OF A CLOSE BY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE ( QATANA ) WERE CUNEIFORM TEXTS BACK
TO THE 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C. WERE FOUND . HOMS WAS ALSO MENTIONED IN THE TABLETS
OF MARI WHERE IT WAS DESCRIBED AS THE HOMELAND OF ARABIAN HORSES .
THIS HISTORICAL CITY PRODUCED MANY
IMPRESSIVE PERSONALITIES. BASSIONS , THE PRINCE OF HOMS; THROUGH HIS DAUGHTER'S
( JULIA DOMNA ) MARRIAGE TO THE ROMAN EMPEROR, SEPTIMUM SEVER US ( WHO RULED
ROME FROM 193 TO 211 ) SIRED THREE RULERS, CARACALLA, HELIOGABALUS AND ALEXANDER
SEVER US . AS A RESULT, HOMS RECEIVED GREAT ATTENTION AND WITNESSED AN AGE OF
PROSPERITY, DURING WHICH MANY BUILDINGS WERE ERECTED . THE REMAINS OF THESE
BUILDINGS CAN STILL BE SEEN TODAY.
LIKE PETRA AND PALMYRA , HOMS BECAME
AN ARAB EMIRATE IN THE 2ND CENTURY B.C. IT WAS ALSO CALLED THE CITY OF THE
FAMOUS ARAB MOSLEM LEADER KHALED IBN AL WALID, WHO CONQUERED HOMS AND SPENT THE
LAST SEVEN YEARS OF HIS LIFE IN IT.
THE MOST IMPORTANT SITES IN
HOMS ARE :
THE REMAINS OF THE
CITADEL ERECTED ON A ROCKY SPUR TO THE SOUTH OF THE CITY.
TWO GATES OF THE
CITY'S ANCIENT WALL, NAMELY DAMASCUS AND PALMYRA GATES.
THE MOSQUE OF
THE ARAB LEADER KHALED IBN AL WALID AND HIS TOMB.
THE CHURCH OF
IM IZNAR, AND THE CHURCH OF ST.ELIEN .
THE NOURI
MOSQUE .
THE MUSEUM OF
HOMS.
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