Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Site of Palmyra' has mentioned 'Syria' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Ancient city in Homs Governorate, Syria | WIKI |
| Palmyra (/xcbx8cpxc3xa6lxcbx88maxc9xaarxc9x99/; Palmyrene: Tadmor; Arabic: xd8xaaxd9x8exd8xafxd9x92xd9x85xd9x8fxd8xb1xe2x80x8e Tadmur) is an ancient Semitic city in present-day Homs Governorate, Syria. | WIKI |
| Before AD 273, Palmyra enjoyed autonomy and was attached to the Roman province of Syria, having its political organization influenced by the Greek city-state model during the first two centuries AD. | WIKI |
| [39] A cross street at the western end of the colonnade leads to the Camp of Diocletian,[27][40] built by Sosianus Hierocles (the Roman governor of Syria in the reign of Diocletian). | WIKI |
| The scarce artifacts found in the city dating to the Bronze Age reveal that, culturally, Palmyra was most affiliated with western Syria. | WIKI |
| [115] A damaged frieze and other sculptures from the Temple of Bel, many removed to museums in Syria and abroad, suggest the city's public monumental sculpture. | WIKI |
| [138] The building was probably used by the rulers of the city;[136] the French general director of antiquities in Syria, Henri Seyrig, proposed that it was a small temple before being turned into a triclinium or banqueting hall. | WIKI |
| [155] ISIL destroyed the Temple of Baalshamin on 23 August 2015 according to Syria's antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim and activists. | WIKI |
| [165][166] Consultations with UNESCO, UN specialized agencies, archaeological associations and museums produced plans to restore Palmyra; the work is postponed until the violence in Syria ends as many international partners fear for the safety of their teams as well as ensuring that the restored artifacts will not be damaged again by further battles. | WIKI |
| [167] Minor restorations took place; two Palmyrene funerary busts, damaged and defaced by ISIL, were sent off to Rome where they were restored and sent back to Syria. | WIKI |
| In 64xc2xa0BC the Roman Republic conquered the Seleucid kingdom, and the Roman general Pompey established the province of Syria. | WIKI |
| [note 15][48][196] The Romans included Palmyra in the province of Syria,[195] and defined the region's boundaries. | WIKI |
| [235] One of Valerian's officers, Macrianus Major, his sons Quietus and Macrianus, and the prefect Balista rebelled against Valerian's son Gallienus, usurping imperial power in Syria. | WIKI |
| [239] In 261 Odaenathus marched against the remaining usurpers in Syria, defeating and killing Quietus and Balista. | WIKI |
| [240] As a reward, he received the title Imperator Totius Orientis ("Governor of the East") from Gallienus,[241] and ruled Syria, Mesopotamia, Arabia and Anatolia's eastern regions as the imperial representative. | WIKI |
| In 750 a revolt, led by Majza'a ibn al-Kawthar and Umayyad pretender Abu Muhammad al-Sufyani, against the new Abbasid Caliphate swept across Syria;[295] the tribes in Palmyra supported the rebels. | WIKI |
| [88][303] In the 1070s Syria was conquered by the Seljuk Empire,[304] and in 1082, the district of Homs came under the control of the Arab lord Khalaf ibn Mula'ib. | WIKI |
| [302][305] Khalaf's lands were given to Malik-Shah's brother, Tutush I,[305] who gained his independence after his brother's 1092 death and established a cadet branch of the Seljuk dynasty in Syria. | WIKI |
| Syria became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1516,[329] and Palmyra was a center of an administrative district (sanjak). | WIKI |
| [335] The Ottoman governor of Syria, Mehmed Rashid Pasha, established a garrison in the village to control the Bedouin in 1867. | WIKI |
| [note 32][339] The Syrian Emirate's army entered Deir ez-Zor on 4 December, and Zor Sanjak became part of Syria. | WIKI |
| [338] Syria (including Palmyra) became part of the French Mandate after Syria's defeat in the Battle of Maysalun on 24 July 1920. | WIKI |
| [345][343] During World War II, the Mandate came under the authority of Vichy France,[346] who gave permission to Nazi Germany to use the airfield at Palmyra;[347] forces of Free France, backed by British forces, invaded Syria in June 1941,[346] and on 3 July 1941, the British took control over the city in the aftermath of a battle. | WIKI |
| [344] In 1929, French general director of antiquities of Syria and Lebanon Henri Seyrig began large-scale excavation of the site;[344] interrupted by World War II, it resumed soon after the war's end. | WIKI |
| First mentioned in the archives of Mari in the 2nd millennium BC, Palmyra was an established caravan oasis when it came under Roman control in the mid-first century AD as part of the Roman province of Syria. | UNESCO |