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| | Syria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Contains: Abilene, Aleppo, Arpad, Arvad, Bashan, Batanaea, Carchemish, Damascus, Ebla, Emesa, Gamgum, Gan Dunias, Hamath, Homs, Latakia, Marathus, Mari, the Nizari, the Nusayri, Palmyra, Syria (General Survey), Tel Barsip, Ugarit, Unqi, Yamkhad, Zimru. |
 | | Not to be confused with the Phoenician city of Arvad, Arpad was a minor Aramaean state north of Aleppo. |
 | | Founded by colonists from Arvad in the second millennium BCE, it is today the site of the only well preserved Phoenician temple in the world. |
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