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Hauran (Arabic: حوران / ALA-LC: Ḥawrān), also spelled Hawran, Houran and Horan, known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans as Auranitis, is a volcanic plateau, a geographic area and a people located in southwestern Syria and extending into the northwestern corner of Jordan, it’s known to be the birth place of the dabke dance which is the most popular dance in all of the Levant.

hauran auranitis ḥawrān

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  1. Jordan River: Johnston negotiations, 1953-55; Yarmuk mediations, 1980s http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/research/case_studies/Jordan_New.htm
  2. Mukaddasi, Description of Syria, Including Palestine, ed. Guy Le Strange, London 1886, p. 26
  3. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land: Journal of an Excursion into the Hauran in the Autumn and Winter of 1810
  4. The castle (citadel) of Salkhad, photographed by Hermann Burchardt (click on photo to enlarge it); Melach Es-Sarrar (Malah) in Hauran, in 1895; Dibese, 400 meters west of Suwayda; Qasr (fortress) al-Mushannaf, in Hauran (click to enlarge); The citadel, Khirbat al-Bayda, in Hauran (1895); The ruins of Khirbet al-Bayda. http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=625441&bt=europeanaapi
  5. Gingeras, Ryan (2016). Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford. pp. 194-195. 
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