Reilly, James

Ḥamā is a city in central Syria on the north-south road between Aleppo and Damascus. It lies on both sides of the Orontes River (Nahr al-ʿĀṣī) amidst cultivated lands that are irrigated by water that is lifted to higher ground along the riverbanks by wooden water wheels. Ḥamā ha…

Homs (Ḥimṣ) is a city in central Syria, linked to the Mediterranean Sea via the ʿAkkār Plain to the west, to the Syrian steppe and desert via Tadmur (Palmyra) to the east, and to Syria’s other major cities of Aleppo in the north, via Hama, and Damascus in the south, via Nabk. It…