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Amrit

The ancient city of Amrit is only 7Km far to the south Tartous. A small Knoen river, called Amrit River or Martias River, penetrates it. It spreads over about -6- square kilometers. It is considered one of the most prominent cities on the Cannanite- Phonecian coast. Aryan mentions that it was the main city in the continental part of Award Kingdom.

The archeological digs showed that it was established and inhabited by the Amorites at the end of 30^th century and the beginning of the 20^th century B.C.

It was mentioned in Tohtomes the third raids under the name: Kurt Amroot. Alexandar's chroniclers mentioned it under the name: Maratous, saying that it is a very prosperous city and might be biggest city in the east .

It was subject to Arwad and constitute with it an alliance that joined paltous ( Arab al-Molk ) , Balania ( Banyas ) and Carna ( Al-Qarnain ) .Also , it was a centre of expansion to the Arwadians on the coast , building their homes , stores , factories and cemeteries there . This is clear because of the scattered ruins over large areas . The Tokens refer to the existence of a port which was filled up because of the erratics and the collected and the frith .

It flourished during the Persian role , and grew when Alexandar came and he found it big and rich .

He received the delegates of king Darius in it , and the rude diplomatic letters were interchanged between them .

Amrit disengaged from the domination of Arwad . in the late 3^rd century B.C – precisely 219 B.C - , and the harted widened between them . so, the Arwadian destroyed it in the mid of the 2^nd century B.C- 148 B.C – as Dior the Sicilian narrates . Then Astrabon mentioned the destroyed city of Amrit, and that the Arwadian had shared its land .

Amrit LOST ITS POSITION DURING THE 1^ST ROMAN ERA . Then it came back to build its glory in the decline of this era and the Byzantine era . This is what the dig's primary results refered to in 1992.

Then it was neglected and the crusaders used its building's stones in the fortifications of Tartous and Amrit ….etc . So, it became an easy quarry of stones till recent past .

The explorer Bokuck visited Amrit in 1745 , and registered some of his seeings . Also , Earnest Rynan came and did archeological investigations in 1860 .

In 1926 , Maurice Donan made archeological digs in the lodging of sacred things, and found a group of ex-voto statues . The digs of the General office of Ruins and museums continued , represented by Dr. Adnan al-Bounni and Prof.Naseeb Salibi . In my turn , I continued the digs and instaurations for several season in it .

The ruins of Amrit shimmed many museums , such as the Loover-France , Beirut and American University Musuem – Lebanon , and the National musuem in Damascus and Tartous museum – Syria

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