Bosra
is 115 k.m far from Damascus . “Bosra’ means the citadel
in classical Arabic . The ancient great Arabs lived in
Bosra since four thousand years in the First Bronze Age .
The Hellenes ruled it .
Al-’Anbat ruled it and made it their northern capital . In
105 AD the Romans occupied it in the reign of the emperor
Trajan . He rebuilt it and called it Provencia Arabia
-(The Arabian Province. After the collapse of the Byzantine Empire , Bosra
played an important role in the beginning of the Christianity . . .
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