Tuttul was an ancient Near East city. Tuttul is identified with the archaeological site of Tell Bi'a in Raqqa Governorate, Syria. Tell Bi'a is located near the modern city of Raqqa and at the confluence of the rivers Balikh and Euphrates.
Early Dynastic tombs at Tuttul
Tell Bi'a with Raqqa in the background
The site of Tuttul from center to the East
Site of Tuttul West to North
Raqqa is a city in Syria on the left bank of the Euphrates River, about 160 kilometres east of Aleppo. It is located 40 kilometres east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest dam. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine city and bishopric Callinicum was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate between 796 and 809, under the reign of Harun al-Rashid. It was also the capital of the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017. With a population of 531,952 based on the 2021 official census, Raqqa is the sixth largest city in Syria.
Raqqa skyline • The Euphrates Raqqa city walls • Baghdad gate Qasr al-Banat Castle • Uwais al-Qarni Mosque
The remains of the historic Baghdad gate
Ewer, late 12th–first half of the 13th century, from Raqqa. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Raqqa Museum (pre-Syrian Civil War)