Resafa (Arabic: الرصافة, romanized: Reṣafa), sometimes spelled Rusafa, and known in the Byzantine era as Sergiopolis (Greek: Σεργιούπολις or Σεργιόπολις...
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Arabia. The city of Resafa, which became a bishop's see, took the name Sergiopolis and preserved his relics in a fortified basilica. Resafa was improved by...
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and Russian air support, which resulted in the recapture of the city of Resafa, and the capture of many oil fields in Ar-Raqqah province, including various...
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thus coming close to ISIL-held Resafa. During 18 June, the Syrian Army captured the last two villages on the road to Resafa. Later that day, an F/A-18 Super...
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the curtailment of military expansion. Hisham established his court at Resafa in northern Syria, which was closer to the Byzantine border than Damascus...
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While on a journey to trade wares at Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik's court in Resafa, he encountered and became pupil to the elderly scholar Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri...
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weakening as Suleiman had chosen Ramla as his residence and later Hisham chose Resafa. Following the murder of the latter in 743, the Caliphate of the Umayyads—which...
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desert near Palmyra Oasis near Al-Sukhnah Camels in the desert near Raqqa Resafa ruins southwest of Raqqa and the Euphrates. Rocks, unidentified location...
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Euphrates valley around the trade center and Arab Christian holy city of Resafa during the late Byzantine era, and later the Homs region of central Syria...
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was supposed to be a copy of the Basilica of St Sergius at Sergiopolis (Resafa), in the middle Euphrates, so that the Arabs would not have to travel so...
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