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Palmyra
Ruins · Syria
- Abandoned
- 1929
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 34.560, 38.267
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: древний город в Сирии
History
Palmyra is an ancient city in central Syria. It is located in the eastern part of the Levant, and archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period, and documents first mention the city in the early second millennium BCE. Palmyra changed hands on a number of occasions between different empires before becoming a subject of the Roman Empire in the first century CE.