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Al-Masmiyah
Sign in to saveAl-Masmiyah (, also spelled Musmiyeh, Mesmiyeh, Mismiya, Mismia and Musmeih) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located northeast of Daraa in the al-Sanamayn District. Nearby localities include Jabab and Muthabin to the west, Ghabaghib to the northeast, Jubb al-Safa to the north, Burraq to the northeast, Khalkhalah and al-Surah al-Saghirah to the southeast and Dama to the south.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Al-Masmiyah
- Settlement.official_name
- Al-Mismiyah
- Settlement.other_name
- Musmiyeh Mesmiyeh
- Settlement.native_name
- المسمية
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Masmiyah-Phaena temple.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- 19th-century drawing of interior space of the Roman temple ("Praetorium") in al-Masmiyah
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- Syria
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- bottom
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- Location in Syria
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Syria
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Daraa
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- al-Sanamayn
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Subdistrict
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- Masmiyyeh Subdistrict
- Image
- Masmiyah-Phaena temple.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Roman period
- Byzantine period
- Ottoman period
- 19th century
- 20th century
- Archaeological remains
- Roman temple
- Demographics
- Religious buildings
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Al-Masmiyah (, also spelled Musmiyeh, Mesmiyeh, Mismiya, Mismia and Musmeih) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located northeast of Daraa in the al-Sanamayn District. Nearby localities include Jabab and Muthabin to the west, Ghabaghib to the northeast, Jubb al-Safa to the north, Burraq to the northeast, Khalkhalah and al-Surah al-Saghirah to the southeast and Dama to the south.
==History== The ancient city of Phaena, judging by the ruin field still visible at Masmiya in the 19th century, had a radius of roughly three miles, making it as large as the ancient walled area of Damascus and larger than the Old City of Jerusalem (which is of Early Muslim date in its present outline and smaller than some of its earlier iterations).
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