. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . ed with villas. The road leads pastthe hotels (right) and after 1/4 hr. crosses the Tora, a stream con-ducted out of the Barada from a point a good deal higher up. The village of Es-SMeMyeh (PI. I; B-D, 1, 2), with 25,000 in-hab., is situated on the Jez7d, another arm of the Barada, and formsa kind of suburb of Damascus. The Damascenes frequently visit it,especially in December, when the habb el-ds, or myrtle-berries areripe. The village received its name in the 5th cent, of the Hegira,w
. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . ed with villas. The road leads pastthe hotels (right) and after 1/4 hr. crosses the Tora, a stream con-ducted out of the Barada from a point a good deal higher up. The village of Es-SMeMyeh (PI. I; B-D, 1, 2), with 25,000 in-hab., is situated on the Jez7d, another arm of the Barada, and formsa kind of suburb of Damascus. The Damascenes frequently visit it,especially in December, when the habb el-ds, or myrtle-berries areripe. The village received its name in the 5th cent, of the Hegira,when it was peopled by Turcomans, to whom colonies of Kurds,Circassians, and Algerians were afterwards added. Since 1896 the|population has been increased by a number of Moslem refugees fromCrete. The interesting old buildings of the schools and mosquesare now almost all in a ruinous condition. Some of them are stilladorned with rich stalactite vaulting, while their walls and domesare enriched with arabesques. The finest mosque is that whichwas erected over (or beside) the tomb of Muhieddtn Ibn el-Arabi. H. Kirperl. ..^IgppOfPalnryra.
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