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Several archaeological monuments that emerge in the town of Shaqaa in the north-eastern countryside of Suwayda are a living witness to ancient civilizations that have progressed to the region and gave it a distinctive character.
The town, which is 27 km away from the center of the province is considered according to the head of the Department of Archeology Sweida, Neshat Kiwan one of the most important archaeological areas in the province, where it assumed a special place during the second and third centuries AD and the Romans named Emperor Maximianos became Maximiano Polis any city Maximian to rise to the city at the time They also matter in later centuries.
The most prominent remains of the rip-off are according to the Kayseri Caesarea, the seat of the ruler, decorated with beautiful architectural decoration.It is square and divided into three wings and consists of an entrance at the eastern façade that opens onto a large reception hall with a dome and its walls decorated with niches, as well as stone stands to display important statues.
In the Byzantine era, a new hall was added to the caesarean section.There is also a larger and longer hall to the south, which extends to the wall of the main hall.The ceiling is mounted on ten arches and under the eastern part there is a cellar.In the middle of its south wall is a niche and a window.There is also a simple ordinary hall to the right of the main hall.
According to Kiwan, the clip used to serve as a public meeting facility, leaving only a portion of the main entrance to the north with an arch and two rectangular mihrabs with arched ends on top of each other.
It is located in the eastern end of the town of Shaqqa, according to the monastery of the monastery, where only a fifth-century tower remains in relatively good condition. Through a covered porch connected to the guard room of the monastery and then the library and its cabinets within the wall and an inner courtyard and then a large meeting room and arches.
According to Kiwan, there are ancient tombs in the town built with elaborately carved stones as well as Greek inscriptions in addition to the existence of archaeological houses similar in structure and functions similar to those of neighboring villages.
Kiwan explains that one of the five important archaeological cities in the province and its effects formed a defensive line of the Romans and was distinguished during the Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine and Arab Islamic times as an important administrative, economic, military and religious center and was then called 'Skaya' and in the third century AD had its own calendar called Shaqqawi calendar.
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