Bajarwan (Syria) Explained

Bājarwān was a small town or village in the Balikh River valley inhabited during the early Islamic period, located between Raqqa and Tall Mahra.^{[1] [2]} It is attested in textual sources until the 10th century and probably peaked during the early Abbasid period, in the late 8th/early 9th centuries.^{[1] [2]} Karin Bartl has identified it with the present-day sites of Tall Dāmir al-Sharqī and Tall Dāmir al-Gharbī on opposite sides of the river.^{[1] [2]} Neither one has been explored by archaeologists.^{[1] [2]}

See also

• Hisn Maslama
• Tall Mahra
• al-Jarud
• Bajadda

Notes and References

1. Heidemann . Stefan . Settlement Patterns, Economic Development and Archaeological Coin Finds in Bilad al-Sham: the Case of the Diyar Mudar - The Process of Transformation from the 6th to the 10th Century A.D. . Orient-Archäologie . 2009 . 24 . 493–516 . 11 March 2022.
2. Book: Heidemann . Stefan . Borrut . A. . Debié . M. . Papaconstantinou . A. . Pieri . D. . Sodini . J.-P. . Le Proche-Orient de Justinien aux Abbasides: Peuplement et Dynamiques Spatiales . 2011 . Brepols Publishers . Turnhout . 978-2-503-53572-2 . 20 March 2022 . The Agricultural Hinterland of Baghdad, al-Raqqa and Samarra': Settlement Patterns in the Diyar Muḍar.