Der Mar Musa
Category:Has custom banner The Hauran is a volcanic plateau in southern Syria. It includes Damascus, the capital.
Cities
Map of Hauran
- 1 DamascusCategory:Has map markers — the capital and oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
- 2 As-SuwaydaCategory:Has map markers — Small city sometimes called Little Venezuela due to the influx of affluent Venezuelan Syrian immigrants.
- 3 Al-ZabadaniCategory:Has map markers — summer resort and hill station
- 4 DeraaCategory:Has map markers — an ancient city on the Jordanian border.
- 5 Sayyidah ZaynabCategory:Has map markers — an important destination for Shī‘a Muslim pilgrims containing the grave of Zaynab, granddaughter of Muhammad.
- 6 SaidnayaCategory:Has map markers — home to a Greek Orthodox monastery believed to have been founded by Byzantine emperor Justinian I,
- 7 YabroudCategory:Has map markers — home of the oldest church in Syria
Other destinations
- 1 BosraCategory:Has map markers — a Roman city in southern Syria close to the Jordan frontier noted for the use of black basalt stones and its well preserved theatre
- 2 Der Mar MusaCategory:Has map markers — not a tourist site, but an active Christian monastery actively promoting Islamic/Christian dialogue. Welcomes Christians and followers of other religious traditions. It is 80 km north of Damascus.
- 3 ShahbaCategory:Has map markers — Former Roman city of Philippopolis.
- 4 ShaqqaCategory:Has map markers — Small town and site of the former Roman city of Maximianopolis.
- 5 QanawatCategory:Has map markers — Small town with several Roman archaeological sites.
- Golan Heights (Syria)Category:Has map markers - mountainous area on the Israeli border
- 6 RakhlahCategory:Has map markers — Former Roman city of Zenopolis with ruins of two Roman-Phoenician temples
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This area is probably safer than the contested Syrian Desert and the Kurdish areas, as the rebels have been cleared from Hauran. However, the area does sometimes see rocket exchanges between Israel and Iran-backed forces in Syria.