Triparadeisos
Vanished settlement · Lebanon
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 34.006, 36.209
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient settlement in Lebanon
History
Triparadeisos or Triparadisus was a settlement in Syria near the sources of the Orontes River. A paradeisos was a hunting reserve or pleasure-ground for the nobility of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire, normally a walled-in area with groves of trees, wild animals, and running water.