Experiment and innovation: early Islamic industry at al-Raqqa, Syria.(Focus On Islam I)

From: Antiquity | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Challis, Keith; Gardner, Adam; Henderson, Julian; McLoughlin, Sean; O'Hara, Sarah; Priestnall, Gary | Copyright information

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The city of al-Raqqa in north central Syria is located close to the confluence of the river Euphrates with its tributary the Balikh (Figure 1). The origin of settlement at the location occupied by al-Raqqa probably lies in the third century BC with the foundation of a Hellenistic city usually identified as Nikephorion. This city was enlarged by Seleucus II Kallinikos (246-226 BC) and renamed Kallinikos/Callinicum after him. Destroyed in AD 542, Callinicum wa...

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