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The tenth round Damascus - Dumayr - Al-Qaryatayn:

- Al-Tanf. It is no less good than Dumayr-Al-Qaryatayn road through Dumayr that serves the area extending from the Lesser Qalamoun mountain range from the west and a chain between the southern Palmyra mountains, within which there are many important human gatherings. Kabira, with a population of about 12,000, is located about 11 km north of Dumayr. Its inhabitants depend for their lives on rain-fed agriculture and a few irrigated crops that are watered from well water, and on animal husbandry, especially sheep. An asphalt road branches out from Al-Rahiba to Al-Qatifa with a length of 11 km. In the middle of this road lies the village of Moadamiya (Moadamiyat Jiroud as it is called), which contains some lands. Roman aqueducts. Its lands were an endowment for the great King Issa bin Al-Malik Al-Adil Al-Ayyubi, who died in the year 624 AH. It is one of the villages that were exposed to torrents on the night of October 29, 1937, most of which were destroyed and some of its residents drowned.

To the north of Al-Rahiba, about 9 km, is the town of Jeroud, which can be
It is also accessible via another asphalt road from Moadamiya and Qutifa. It is located within a large plain basin with many Roman canals, and its land is lush green in the spring and summer. To the east of it, about 3 km, is its famous wide salt (its area is about 12 km (2)), which extends eastward to the south of the village of Nasiriyah. Jeroud is an old town dating back to the Aramaic era, and includes many Roman ruins, mentioned by Yaqut al-Hamawi in his dictionary under the name of Jabrud. It was raided by the October torrents. The first was in 1937, many of the houses located on the road to floods were demolished, and its population was estimated at the beginning of 1992 to be about 20 thousand people (15,906 according to the September census of 1981). and stone and cement construction, which is concentrated in the western part of the town.

Al-Atna: a small village (population about 1,500 people) located northeast of Jeroud (5 km from it) and its location is similar to that of Jeroud in the Sahelian basin itself. To the north of it - to the left of the road - is an old khan known as Khan al-Atna, built by Emir Rukn al-Din Mankurs in the early seventh century AH, and mentioned by al-Qalqashandi in Subh al-Asha (vol.

Nasiriyah: After about 4 km, we reach the village of Nasiriyah, the last village in Rif Dimashq Governorate, on the Dumayr-Al-Qaryatayn road, and the road continues through it towards Al-Qaryatayn, which is about 69 km away. The previous village (Al-Atna). Its population depends mostly on irrigated agriculture from well water, and its people raise large numbers of sheep. It and its basin are overlooked from the west by Jabal Ghazala, which is crossed by a road extending from Nasiriyah to the Damascus-Nabak road, where
It meets it about 5 km before an-Nabak (immediately after Al-Qastal). After Al-Nasiriyah by about 12 km (on Al-Nasiriyah Al-Qaryatayn Road), to the right of the road, about one kilometer, an old building is visible, the Khan Al-Tarab Al-Abyad Building. And after that, about 25 km, the province of Damascus countryside ends, after which one enters the lands of Homs province, and reaches the two villages after about 25 km - and we have a talk about it in one of the tours of Homs