Syria map quiz
Explore the cities of Syria!
Quizzes in this pack
Syria: cities, landmarks.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- Capital and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world
- Answer: Damascus
- Ancient commercial city in the north, famous for its medieval citadel and souks
- Answer: Aleppo
- Central city on the Orontes river, strategic crossroads between coast and interior
- Answer: Homs
- Main Mediterranean port city, surrounded by mountains and tobacco-growing regions
- Answer: Latakia
- City on the Orontes famous for its giant ancient wooden waterwheels (norias)
- Answer: Hama
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Krak des Chevaliers
Homs Governorate
Krak des Chevaliers is a Crusader castle on a hilltop in western Syria, held by the Knights Hospitaller from 1142 to 1271. With its two rings of thick walls it is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in the world.
- Built
- Mostly 1100s–1200s
- Did you know?
- It fell in 1271 after Sultan Baybars tricked the knights with a forged letter
- Rings a bell?
- T. E. Lawrence, later known as Lawrence of Arabia, called it perhaps the finest castle in the world
Umayyad Mosque
Old City of Damascus
The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus was built in 705 where a Roman temple and then a church had stood, and it is one of the oldest and largest mosques in the world. A shrine inside is said to hold the head of John the Baptist.
- Built
- 705–715
- Did you know?
- Its golden mosaics show trees, rivers and palaces
Ruins of Palmyra
Homs Governorate
Palmyra was a rich oasis city in the Syrian desert, where caravans on the trade routes between Rome and the East stopped. Its long colonnaded street and temples were among the finest ruins of the Roman world, but the Islamic State group destroyed several of them in 2015 and 2017.
- Built
- Mostly AD 1–270
- Did you know?
- Queen Zenobia of Palmyra rebelled against Rome and ruled much of the East around AD 270
Norias of Hama
Hama, on the Orontes
The norias of Hama are huge wooden waterwheels on the river Orontes, some about 20 metres across, that lifted water into aqueducts for the town's fields and gardens. There have been norias here for many centuries, and as they turn they groan loudly.
- Size
- Up to about 20 m across
Dead Cities
North-west Syria
The Dead Cities are about 700 abandoned villages in the limestone hills of north-western Syria, built between the 100s and 700s. Their stone houses, churches and bathhouses still stand, among them Serjilla, left behind as trade routes changed.
- How many
- About 700 villages
Roman Theatre of Bosra
Bosra, Daraa Governorate
The Roman theatre of Bosra, from the 100s, is one of the best-preserved in the world. It survived because the Ayyubids built a fortress around it in the Middle Ages, and it seated about 15,000 people.
- Capacity
- About 15,000
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