Zenobia Hotel Palmyra Syria

... . This strategic location made Palmyra prosper in a well-established kingdom from the 2nd century BC. After Romans conquered Syria, Palmyra flourished. When Emperor Adrian upon his visit, declared it a free city, people of Palmyra gratefully called their ...

We ended up 10 km from Iraqi Border, nice place! Slightly hostile. Now Palmyra 'the free city' a desert oasis , with roman inspired ruins. It was a Major point along the silk route.

December 3, 2007 Palmyra, Syria We suppose that most travel blog readers fall into two categories. There are those who started with us at the beginning and keep up to see how we are doing. There are fewer and fewer of them as we drag this out and the ...

... steady flow of travellers have made the trek out into the desert from Aleppo and other parts of Syria. Palmyra's greatest days were when Zenobia started ruling Palmyra on behalf of her son Vaballath. Zenobia with the help of her Prime Minister Longinus ...

... to control Syria, Palestine and part of Egypt. Eventually the Romans regained control of the region and besieged Palmyra itself, where Queen Zenobia was captured and carted off back to Rome. Following this the city changed hands numerous times but never ...