Palmira (Greek leid Πάλμυρα) is an auncient kintra an ceety that is nou in Sirie.
The Bible said it's the Salomon keeng wha constructit the ceety (« An he biggit Tadmor in the desert »).
Integreitit tae Roman Impire bi Tiberius, in the Roman Province o Sirie.
Palmira wis taken in the VIIt century bi Muslim fowks, when it open't its doors in 634 tae Khalid ibn al-Walid. Unner the Omeyyads Kalifs, the ceety became bigger. The main street givin tae the Colonnades becam a souq (Arab street market). The Kalifs mad construct in the suburbs o Palmira luxurious domains, like Bkhara in the Sooth East or the Palas o Hisham in Qasr el Heyr el Gharbi, West o the ceety. Palmira itself hae tae support the civil weirs that gied finally the end o the Omeyyads.
The ceety wis ravagit an pillit bi Timur, bat a relief wis felt. In the XVt century Ibn Fadlallah al-Omari said Tadmor (the ither name o Palmira) sayin it haes "vast gardens, prosper commerce an curious biggins ». In the XVIt century Fakhr ed-Din al Maany the Qalat Ibn Maan mad an immens Stronghold, on the dominant ben on the West side o the ceety. In Ottoman Time, Palmira loses its commercial an agricultural pawer. In the XVIIt century the ceety seem't tae hae its gey primitive proportions again : It is nae mair than a veeleage lost in its auld protectin walls. Aathing haes ben abandoned.
