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Resafa (Arabic: الرصافة, romanized:
Reṣafa),
sometimes spelled Rusafa, and
known in the
Byzantine era as
Sergiopolis (Gr****: Σεργιούπολις or Σεργιόπολις...
- 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...
- 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...
- the
curtailment of
military expansion.
Hisham established his
court at
Resafa in
northern Syria,
which was
closer to the
Byzantine border than Damascus...
-
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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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...
-
desert near
Palmyra Oasis near Al-Sukhnah
Camels in the
desert near
Raqqa Resafa ruins southwest of
Raqqa and the Euphrates. Rocks,
unidentified location...
- 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...
- al‐ʿUrḍī) in the
village of ʿUrḍ in the
Syrian desert between Palmyra and
Resafa, he
moved to
Damascus at some
point before 1239,
where he
worked as an engineer...
- 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...
