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Qal'at Ja'bar is built

1168 CE · Syria, Asia · History

Qal'at Ja'bar is built
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Qal'at Ja'bar is a castle on the left bank of Euphrates Lake in Raqqa Governorate, Syria. Its site, formerly a prominent hill-top overlooking the Euphrates Valley, is now an island in Lake Assad that can only be reached by an artificial causeway.

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