The site’s core references on Rastan — choose a book to read it in full as a PDF, with selected excerpts.
The foundational reference for the city’s history — from Seleucid Arethusa to the twentieth century, with a foreword by Bashir Zahdi, curator of the National Museum of Damascus, and selected quotations from its chapters.
Open the book →The scholar Ahmad Wasfi Zakariyya’s tour of the Levant, with a chapter describing Rastan in 1934: its paved street, its columns and its old twelve-arched bridge — with selected excerpts and a direct link to the chapter.
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