Syrian desert
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The Syrian desert, also known as the North Arabian desert, the Jordanian steppe, the Syrian steppe, or the Badiya, or Badiyat al-Sham, is a region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe, covering about 50
Palmyra was an important trading center located in the Syrian desert
View of the Syrian Desert
Desert around Palmyra
Resafa ruins southwest of Raqqa and the Euphrates.
Armenian genocide
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The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress, it was imp
Syrian desert
…by the Sasanian emperor Shapur I in the 250s, most of its citizens fled, and under Sasanian rule, the city was abandoned. During the Ottoman Empire's Armenian genocide, large numbers of victims were deported across the Euphrates River into the desert to die. The Syrian desert was first traversed by motor vehicle in…
Column of Armenian deportees guarded by gendarmes in Harput vilayet
The Armenian quarter of Adana after the 1909 massacres
Muslim bandits parading with loot in Phocaea (modern-day Foça, Turkey) on 13 June 1914. In the background are Greek refugees and burning buildings.
Armenian defenders in Van, 1916