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Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi

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Vyacheslav Argenberg — CC BY 4.0

Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi is a castle (qasr) in the middle of the Syrian Desert. It was built by the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 728-29 CE in an area rich in desert fauna.

History

It was apparently used as a military and hunting outpost. The palace is the counterpart of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi, a nearby castle palace built one year earlier. It is one of the so-called desert castles.

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James Gordon from Los Angeles, California, USA — CC BY 2.0
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Neil Carey from Edmonton, Canada — CC BY-SA 2.0
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Franco Pecchio — CC BY 2.0
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Jim Gordon — CC BY 2.0
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