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Identifier: palestinesyriawi01karl (find matches)
Title: Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm) Socin, A. (Albert), 1844-1899 Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935 Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
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Publisher: Leipzig : Karl Baedeker London : T. Fisher Unwin New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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f Egypt and Syria. El-Kerak is the capital of a liwa of the vilayet cf Syria (p. Ivii), and con-tains 3000 inhab., including a garrison. It consists almost entirely ofwretched huts. The Greeks possess two old churches here, the Latins aschorl. Each of the Christian sects, as are also the Moslems, is under asheikh of its own. The environs are fertile, and the inhabitants are chieflyemployed in agriculture and cattle-raising. The trade of El-Kerak iswholly in the hands of merchants from Hebron. As a rule, the inhabitantsare in bad repute on account of their cupidity. The town lies upon a hill cut off on ill sides by (eep gorges; it isseparated from the adjoining hill on the S. by a large artificial moat. Thehuge Castle on the S. side of the town now serves as barracks. A moatalso skirts the N. side of the fortress, and on the E. side the wall has asloped or battered base. The walls are very thick and well preserved.The extensive galleries, corridors, and halls constitute it an admirable
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